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WorksheetsLogical Fallacies Definitions 1
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
Introduces an irrelevant point into an argument.
Equivocation
Red Herring
Straw Man
Genetic Fallacy
Using a double standard or arguing for an unjustified exception to the rule.
Genetic Fallacy
Tu Quoque
Special Pleading
Fallacy of Composition
Attacking an opponent's character or their motives for believing something.
Ad Hominem
Red Herring
Tu Quoque
Appeal to the People
Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it.
Fallacy of Division
Circular Reasoning
Appeal to Authority
Genetic Fallacy
Dismissing someone's viewpoint on an issue because they are also inconsistent on that issue.
Ad Hominem
Tu Quoque
Genetic Fallacy
Appeal to the People
Referencing someone who has no special knowledge in the area being discussed.
Tu Quoque
Genetic Fallacy
Appeal to the People
Appeal to Authority
Claiming that an argument is correct because many others agree with it.
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to the People
Equivocation
Straw Man
Changing or exaggerating an opponent's position to make it easier to refute.
Ad Hominem
Straw Man
Genetic Argument
Appeal to Authority
An argument which says "P is true because Q is true, and Q is true because P is true."
Ad Hominem
Straw Man
Tu Quoque
Circular Reasoning
Changing the meaning of the word mid-argument.
Equivocation
Circular Reasoning
Appeal to the People
Red Herring
When someone assumes an answer to a hidden question.
Tu Quoque
Appeal to the People
Loaded Question
Equivocation
Assumes that course of action inevitably leads from one result to another with unintended consequences.
Circular Reasoning
Slippery Slope
Equivocation
Genetic Fallacy
When someone says that what is true of part of something must also be true of the whole thing.
Fallacy of Division
Fallacy of Composition
Appeal to the People
Equivocation
When someone says that what is true of something as a whole must also be true of each of its parts.
Genetic Fallacy
Tu Quoque
Fallacy of Composition
Fallacy of Division
Comparing two items to each other with only minor similarities and/or major differences.
Genetic Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Weak Analogy
Hasty Generalization
Makes assumption about a class based on a small or poor sample size.
Weak Analogy
Hasty Generalization
Loaded Question
Post Hoc
Assumes since A happened before B, A must have caused B.
Circular Reasoning
Tu Quoque
Post Hoc
Loaded Question
