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WorksheetsLogical Fallacies
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.
a)
Hasty Generalization
b)
No True Scotsman
c)
Equivocation
d)
Amphiboly
2.
A formal fallacy in a categorical syllogism where the middle term, or the term that does not appear in the conclusion, is not distributed to the other two terms.
a)
No True Scotsman
b)
Undistributed Middle Term
c)
False Cause
d)
Patriotic Approach
3.
What fallacy is a personal attack?
a)
Ad hominem
b)
Begging the Question
c)
Circular Reasoning
d)
Incredulity
4.
Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument. As the audience, allowing an irrelevant authority to add credibility to the claim being made.
a)
Appeal to the negative
b)
Ad hominem
c)
Appeal To authority
d)
Equivocation
5.
This is the general category of many fallacies that use emotion in place of reason in order to attempt to win the argument. It is a type of manipulation used in place of valid logic.
a)
Contradictory Premises
b)
Genetic
c)
Straw man
d)
Appeal to emotion
6.
When force, coercion, or even a threat of force is used in place of a reason in an attempt to justify a conclusion.
a)
Appeal to Force
b)
Appeal to Death
Ad hominem
Ad hominem
c)
Sunshine fallacy
d)
Circular Reasoning
7.
Using historical preferences of the people , either in general or as specific as the historical preferences of a single individual, as evidence that the historical preference is correct.
a)
False Cause
b)
Appeal to Tradition
c)
Amphiboly
d)
Red Herring
8.
Any form of argument where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises.
a)
Appeal to Extremes
b)
Bandwagon
c)
Begging the Question
d)
Snob
9.
A type of reasoning in which the proposition is supported by the premises, which is supported by the proposition, creating a circle in reasoning where no useful information is being shared. This fallacy is often quite humorous.
a)
Personal Charm
b)
No True Scotsman
c)
Circular Reasoning
d)
Begging the Question
10.
Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading.
a)
Equivocation
b)
Middle term
c)
False Cause
d)
Ad Hominem
11.
Basing the truth claim of an argument on the origin of its claims or premises, like race or ethnicity.
a)
Appeal to Tradition
b)
Ad hominem
c)
Patriotic
d)
Genetic
12.
A fallacy that incorrectly assumes an effect from a cause.
a)
False Effect
b)
False Cause
c)
Amphiboly
d)
Equivocation
13.
When a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in turn leads to a more significant event, and so on, until some ultimate, significant event is reached, where the connection of each event is not only unwarranted, but with each step it becomes more and more improbable.
a)
Straw man
b)
Incredulity
c)
Hasty Generalization
d)
Slippery Slope
14.
A fallacy in which a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.
a)
Red Herring
b)
Snob
c)
Patriotic
d)
Amphiboly
15.
Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument.
a)
Special Pleading
b)
Straw Man
c)
Begging the Question
d)
Circular Reasoning
16.
This fallacy occurs when a bad argument trades upon grammatical ambiguity to create an illusion of cogency.
a)
Appeal to Ambiguity
b)
Appeal to the Negative
c)
Amphiboly
d)
Red Herring
17.
A logical fallacy that occurs when someone decides that something did not happen, because they cannot personally understand how it could happen.
a)
Incredulity
b)
Clueless
c)
Begging the Question
d)
Ad hominem
18.
This fallacy involves discounting evidence that would refute a proposition, concluding that it hasn’t been falsified when in fact it has.
a)
False Cause
b)
No True Scotsman
c)
Argument from Negative
d)
Equivocation
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