Fallacies of Logic

The red bicycle is red.

• circular logic

• red herring

• either/or

• straw man

Al Gore feels that all companies are irresponsible and should be punished for allowing emissions which causes global warming.

• straw man

• red herring

• slippery slope

• either/or (black/white) (binary)

Attacks the arguer instead of the argument

• Slippery slope

• False dilemma

• Ad hominem/personal attack/attack the man

• straw man

Ignores someone's actual argument and presents a distorted or oversimplified version instead

• slippery slope

• straw man

• bandwaggon

• red herring

Either you decide that you can afford this stereo, or decide not to have music for a while

• straw man

• slippery slope

• either or fallacy

• burden of proof

Assumes that a proposed step will set off a chain of uncontrollable events.

• slippery slope

• begging the question/circular reasoning

• either or fallacy otherwise called false dilemma

• red herring

Encouraged to take some action because other people are doing the same thing.

• begging the question/circular reasoning,

• false authority

• bandwagon

• appeal to emotion

Presents an argument in which the conclusion is assumed in the reasoning.

• perfection solution

• false authority

• begging the question/circular reasoning

• Bias

Diverts attention from the original issue by shifting to another issue/topic

• Hasty generalization

• red herring

• ad hominem/ personal attack

• appeal to logos

"Everytime I wash my car it rains, therefore, washing my car makes it rain."

• ad hominem

• post hoc/faulty cause and effect

• analogy

• anecdote