Logical Fallacy

This has to work so it will work.

• Non-Sequitur

• Circular Reasoning

• Post Hoc

• Straw Man

If you eat that cookie tonight, you'll eat ten tomorrow, and by this time next year, you'll be eating 1 million cookies a day.

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Non-Sequitur

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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

We can't believe what he says out of that ugly mouth of his.

• Ad Hominem

• Ad Populum

• Non-Sequitur

• Straw Man

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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

Paranormal activity is real because I've seen a ghost.

• Red Herring

• Begging the Question

• Slippery Slope

• False Analogy

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

My fridge isn't working. I should probably finish that book I've been reading.

• Non-Sequitur

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• 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

Match the following with the correct logical fallacy or unfair emotional appeal.

• weak or false analogy

• explains a subject by comparing it to the features of another

• disconnected ideas

• incorrect assertion the crowd or majority is always right

• bandwagon

• there is no logical connection between two or more ideas

• broad generalization

• states something as absolute

• hasty generalization

• A conclusion based on insufficient evidence

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Match the following

• false cause and effect relationship

• reduces alternatives in an attempt to manufacture a relationship between events

• begging the question

• a claim is stated but no supporting evidence is given

• ad hominem

• provides that one event occurring before another is the cause of that event

• oversimplification

• attacks the person instead of the position

• glittering generality

• deliberately arouses an audiences emotions

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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

Transfer is a logical fallacy in which the offender attacks a famous person for doing something that causes an issue.

• True

• False

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

My opponent is an untrustworthy liar and an idiot. Therefore, you should believe me.

• Hasty Generalization

• Circular Reasoning

• Cherry-picking the evidence

• Ad Hominem

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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

I met a tall man who loved to eat cheese. Now I believe that all tall people like cheese.

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Affirming the Consequent

• Appeal to Irrelevant Authority

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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