Logical Fallacy

The following image is an example of which logical fallacy? The image asks "How excited are you about purchasing this fantastic TV?"

• Loaded Question

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• False Authority

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If you follow the advice of the following image, which logical fallacy would you be using in your argument?

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to Emotion

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

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The following statement is an example of which logical fallacy? "Why worry about pandas going extinct, when we have the homeless in our country to worry about?"

• Slippery Slope

• Loaded Question

• Red Herring

• Hasty Generalization

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Which Logical Fallacy is this?: I am not listening to someone as dumb as you.

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

• Begging the Question

• False Premise

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After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• ad hominem

• false premise

• straw man

• begging the question

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My opponent raises a really good point, but can we really trust him? He moved to this town three years ago and everyone knows his wife left him.

• begging the question

• false premise

• straw man

• ad hominem

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The Book Is A Bestseller Because It Sold The Most Copies

• ad hominem

• false premise

• begging the question

• straw man

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All birds fly, penguins cannot fly, so therefore penguins are not birds.

• ad hominem

• strawman

• begging the question

• false premise

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Water bottles are bad for the environment, so they are bad for nature.

• ad hominem

• false premise

• straw man

• begging the question

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I saw a brown animal in the woods, so it must be a brown bear. It cannot be any other animal.

• ad hominem

• false premise

• straw man

• begging the question

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