Fallacious Reasoning

Faulty or mistaken logic is called

• fallacious reasoning

• credibility

• rhetoric

• point-of-view

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A mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument, is called

• a fallacy

• credibility

• a counterclaim

• a thesis

False causality is _____

• something that sounds pragmatic (use a dictionary!) and always is

• ideas that are repeated over and over

• basing a claim on erroneous (use a dictionary!) statements like, "if I only eat two meals a day, I will not be overweight."

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When you use the claim you are trying to make as proof of that claim, you are using circular reasoning.  Which of these do you think does this?

• Prius is a great car because it is well made, safe, and gets good gas mileage.

• The mayor wants a mall in our town for more money. The fact that he wants this mall is proof that he is greedy.

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If you cared about my happiness, you'd buy me this dog.

• non sequitur

• alse causality

• oversimplification

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When I don't show up to classes, I do better on tests.

• ad hominem

• oversimplification

• false causality

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I don't agree with Horace Mann creating school becouse he talks funny.

• ad hominem

• faulty analogy

• red herring

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Procrastinating on homework until last minute is like waiting to pickup your child from daycare.

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  circular argument

• straw man

• faulty analogy

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Which of the following is an example of a straw man fallacy?

• A) Ignoring someone's argument and attacking a distorted version of it

• B) Using someone's personal traits to discredit their argument

• C) Assuming that because one event follows another, the first caused the second

• D) Presenting only two options when more exist

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What is the term for reasoning that involves attacking the person making an argument rather than the argument itself?

• A) Ad hominem

• B) Red herring

• C) Slippery slope

• D) Bandwagon

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