ELA 009 - LOGICAL FALLACIES - 4TH QUARTER

Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization
• Post Hoc
• Bandwagon Appeals
• False Dilemma

Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter hoc
• Appeal to False Authority
• Bandwagon appeal
• Faulty Analogy

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns.

• ad hominem
• either-or fallacy
• hasty generalization
• slippery slope

America is the best place to live, because it's better than any other country.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• circular logic

• straw man

The red bicycle is red.

• circular logic

• red herring

• either/or

• straw man

It is warmer this year in Las Vegas as compared to last year; therefore, global warming is rapidly accelerating.

• slippery slope

• red herring

• circular reasoning

• hasty generalization

The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.

• ad hominem

• moral equivalence

• non sequitur

• circular reasoning

"The two courses I took at UF were not very interesting. I don't think its a good university."

• Ciruclar reasoning

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• False dilemma

Supports a claim with the claim itself

• Red Herring

• Appeal to Nature

• Bandwagon

• Circular Reasoning

• Guilt by Association