Fallacious Reasoning

Is this an example of fallacious reasoning?"Everyone is buying the new iPhone that is coming out this weekend. You have to buy it too!

• True

• False

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Is this an example of fallacious reasoning?"We can either agree with Barbara's plan, or just let the project fail. There is no other option."

• True

• False

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Alissa has class with a football player who is a class clown. He disrupts the class and is failing. Alissa decides all football players are not serious students.

• True

• False

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Is this sentence fallacious?

"An environmental scientist, who has been studying climate change for several years, says that global warming is not real."

• True

• False

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_______________ is an error in reasoning.

• Overstatement

• Repetition

• Fallacious reasoning

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Which fallacy is used here?

"Sarah likes to run. All girls must like to run."

• False Analogy

• False Cause

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

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"You're either a cat person or a dog person" is an example of ​an (a)   logical fallacy.

• either or

• No True Scotsman

• Ad Hominem

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Which logical fallacy is used in the text? I read that people with higher-paying jobs wear more expensive clothing. So, if I wear fancier clothes, I'll finally get that raise I've been wanting.

• Guilt by association: a negative association intended to discredit someone or something.

• Straw man: a misrepresentation of an opponent’s position that makes it easier to argue against..

• False causation: the assumption that because two things happened, one caused the other.

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CCSS.RI.8.8

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What is the either-or fallacy?

• Presenting a complex issue as having only two possible outcomes.

• Repeating the same argument over and over again.

• Making an argument too complicated to understand.

• Ignoring the real issue by focusing on minor details.

An error in reasoning

• Falsehood

• Rhetorical Devices

• Logical Fallacies

• Mistake

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