Logical Fallacies

The Cardinals are the best football team because they're better than all the other teams.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• straw man argument

• ad hominem

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Jack is a good athlete. Jack comes from Canada. Therefore, all Canadians are good athletes.

• red herring

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

• bandwagon fallacy

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"Four out of five dentists recommend Happy Glossy toothpaste. Therefore, it must be great."

• non sequitur

• false causation

• red herring

• hasty generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"Every time I go to sleep the sun goes down. Therefore, my sleeping causes the sun to set."

• false dichotomy

• false causation

• circular reasoning

• guilt by association

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"To get better schools, we have to raise taxes. If we don't, we can't have better schools."

• false dichotomy

• false causation

• appeal to nature

• hasty generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Because everybody thinks this way, it must be right.

• hasty generalization

• circular reasoning

• guilt by association

• bandwagon fallacy

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"Yes, we have safety issues in our factory. But we work really hard to make a good product."

• straw man argument

• false causation

• red herring

• hasty generalization

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"The Senator must be wrong on the issue of taxes because he's such a jerk to the people who work for him."

• appeal to nature

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

• bandwagon fallacy

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why is this a logical fallacy: 
"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

• It is showing Senator Jones is an authority on submarines.

• Submarines are popular.

• It changes the argument to something else. 

• It stereotypes submarines.

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why is this a logical fallacy? "You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they'll walk all over you."

• It oversimplifies the problem.

• It leads to something that probably won't happen.

• It only gives two choices to a larger problem.

• It argues someone's an expert.

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1