Types of Fallacious Reasoning

Which type of fallacy is represented by exaggerating someone's argument to an extreme that they did not propose?

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• False Dilemma

This fallacy suggests that one small step will lead to a chain of negative effects without evidence supporting this inevitability. Which is it?

• Circular Reasoning

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Emotion

Attacking the character of the person making an argument rather than the argument itself exemplifies which fallacy?

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

• False Dilemma

• Circular Reasoning

Which fallacy involves presenting two extreme options as the only possible choices when more options may exist?

• Slippery Slope

• Circular Reasoning

• False Dilemma

• Appeal to Emotion

Using emotional manipulation instead of factual evidence to persuade others is known as what type of fallacy?

• A) Appeal to Emotion

• B) Straw Man

• C) Hasty Generalization

• D) False Dilemma

When the conclusion of an argument is assumed in the phrasing of the question itself, it is an example of which fallacy?

• Begging the Question

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

What is the term for making a rushed conclusion based on insufficient evidence?

• False Dilemma

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

Fill in the blank: A fallacy where someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself is called ____.

• Circular Reasoning

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Hasty Generalization