Logical Fallacies

Either you can save your money to buy a new car for yourself, or you can just take an Uber around for the rest of your life.

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to Fear

• Personal Attack

What is wrong with Tanya? She only has five hundred dollars saved and she’s going away to college next year. That would be like letting my four-year-old brother go to Russia by hisself.

• False Dilemma

• Stereotype

• False Analogy

If we can send a woman into outerspace and communicate with them while they are there, then surely we can learn to communicate with one another in our state.

• Stereotype

• False Analogy

• Categorical Claim

Either you text your friend or you don't have any fun at all.

• False Dilemma

• Categorical Claim

• Personal Attack

Select the fallacy being used.

• bandwagon

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• false analogy

Identify the fallacy.

• slippery slope

• strawman

• false analogy

• ad populum (bandwagon)

Kids need more freedom of speech," a student says. "Really," a teacher replies. "We teachers can't even talk about which candidates we support." This is

• inductive reasoning

• ad hominem

• red herring

• slippery slope

Select the fallacy being used.

• bandwagon

• either/or

• hasty generalization

• false analogy

An argument that assumes the truth of what it is trying to prove.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• straw man argument

• ad hominem

An argument that appeals to popular opinion as the basis for its truth.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• guilt by association

• bandwagon fallacy