Logical Fallacies Review

"All social media does is rot your brain and make people obsessed with getting likes."

• Loaded Language

• Circular Reasoning

• Strawman

• Red Herring

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

"You shouldn’t take up art as a hobby. Only kids who don’t care about academics waste their time on that."

• Sweeping Generalization

• Straw Man

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

"You shouldn’t wear those lame sneakers. Everyone who wears them is just trying too hard to look cool, but they’re actually boring."

• Circular Reasoning

• Straw Man

• Loaded Language

• Sweeping Generalizatin

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

"You have to try this energy drink! Everyone is drinking it before practice, so it must work!"

• Circular Reasoning

• Sweeping Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Red Herring

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

"You shouldn’t worry about how much homework you have—shouldn’t you be grateful you even get an education?"

• Red Herring

• Loaded Language

• Circular Reasoning

• Sweeping Generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

"You can’t borrow the car because I said no. And since I said no, you’re not borrowing the car."

• Circular Reasoning

• Red Herring

• Straw Man

• Loaded Language

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

"If we let students use calculators in class, soon they won’t bother to learn math at all."

• Bandwagon

• Sweeping Generalization

• Circular Reasoning

• Straw Man

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

"You only want to take a gap year because you're lazy and don’t want to put in the effort for college."

• Straw Man

• Circular Reasoning

• Bandwagon

• Red Herring

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

"You can’t go to that concert—concerts are just full of loud, obnoxious people who don’t know how to behave."

• Circular Reasoning

• Loaded Language

• Begging the question

• Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

"You shouldn’t buy that brand of phone—no one who’s serious about technology would be caught dead with it."

• Loaded Language

• Straw Man

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1