WorksheetsLogical Fallacies
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 10mins
I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her new school has one and I want her to fit in with the other kids.
Appeal to False Authority
Either/ Or
Bandwagon
Slippery Slope
Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.
Bob: So you’re saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists.
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Causality
Straw Man
My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.
Slippery Slope
Sentimental Appeal
Bandwagon
Ad Hominem
Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.
Ad Hominem
Scare Tactic
Hasty Generalization
Sentimental Appeal
If I don’t take this A.P. class, then I won’t do well on the exam. If I don’t do well on the A.P. exam, then I can’t get into a good college. If I can’t get into a good college, then I’ll never get a good job. If I can’t get a good job, then I’m going to have to live in my parents’ basement forever. Guess I’ll sign up for the A.P. class.
Scare Tactic
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Causality
You need to go to the party with me, otherwise you’ll just be bored at home.
hasty generalization
post hoc
false dichotomy
appeal to ignorance
tu quoque
I know the professor said the Bridges of Madison County was smarmy trash and lacked any artistic worth. But I still think he's wrong. After all, it was on the best-seller list for over 100 weeks.
Scare Tactics
Red Herring
Bandwagon Argument
Begging the Question
What is a logical fallacy?
An argument with a premise and a conclusion
An argument that contains a non-statement
An argument that contains mistake in reasoning
Sorry sir, please slap me
"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."
Student: You didn't teach us this; we never learned this.
Teacher: So, what you're saying is that you just didn't study it after we went over it in class right? That you don't want to put in the work?
Strawman Argument
Circular logic
Ad Hominem
False Dilemma
Student: You didn't teach us this; we never learned this.
Teacher: So, you're either lazy or unwilling to learn is that right?
Ad Hominem
Strawman
False Dilemma
Post Hoc
