WorksheetsArguments and Fallacies
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
People who eat oatmeal have healthy hearts.
Slippery Slope
Red Herring
Post Hoc
Hasty Generalizations
“Because Isko Moreno played the president on television he’d probably make a great president in real life.”
Appeal to Authority
Hasty Generalizations
Weak Analogy
Slippery Slope
“President Aquino raised taxes, and then the rate of violent crime went up. Aquino is responsible for the rise in crime."
Red Herring
Appeal to Authority
Post Hoc
Red Herring
“Animal experimentation reduces our respect for life. If we don’t respect life, we are likely to be more and more tolerant of violent acts like war and murder. Soon our society will become a battlefield in which everyone constantly fears for their lives. It will be the end of civilization. To prevent this terrible consequence, we should make animal experimentation illegal right now.”
Weak Analogy
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Post Hoc
Roosters crow before sunrise. Therefore roosters cause the sun to rise.
Slippery Slope
Weak Analogy
Hasty Generalization
Post Hoc
Wealthy people are snobs.
Post Hoc
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalizations
Appeal to Authority
Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later, she comes down with fever. Joan concludes that cat’s scratch must be the cause of her illness.
Slippery Slope
Weak Analogy
Red Herring
Hasty Generalizations
My paper is like a mud puddle because they both get bigger when it rains and they’re both kind of murky.
Hasty Generalizations
Weak Analogy
Post Hoc
Red Herring
Librarians are shy and smart.
Red Herring
Slippery Slope
Appeal to Authority
Hasty Generalizations
How is talking about vaccinations going to help us find a cure for cancer?
Red Herring
Post Hoc
Weak Analogy
Hasty Generalizations
