WorksheetsFallacies
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
"Justin Bieber has millions of fans; therefore, he must be talented"
Ad ignorantiam - lack of knowledge is knowledge
Ad hominem - against the person
Ad misericordiam - to pity
Ad populum to emotion/bandwagon
Don't believe what Kim says about global warming. Kim dropped out of college!
Ad misericordiam - to pity
Ad hominem - against the person
Non causa pro causa - questionable cause
Converse accident - hasty Gen
We should move to Budapest - Donald Trump says the weather is better there.
Equivocation
Ad populum - to popular emotion/bandwagon
Non causa pro causa - questionable cause
Ad verecundiam - to inappropriate authority
Bill Gates says that over-population is a problem.Therefore, over-population is a problem.
Ad populum - popular belief
Ad baculum - force
Ad misericordiam - pity
Ad verecundiam - authority
If you were a true American you would support the rights of people to choose whatever vehicle they want.
Begging the Claim
Hasty Generalization
Ad populum/
Bandwagon Appeal
Slippery Slope
We should abolish the death penalty. Even Taylor Swift is opposed to it.
Hasty Generalization
Bandwagon
Straw Man
Appeal to Authority
My opponent is an untrustworthy liar and an idiot. Therefore, you should believe me.
Hasty Generalization
Circular Reasoning
Cherry-picking the evidence
Ad Hominem
Luke didn't want to eat his vegetables, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who don't have anything to eat.
Hasty generalization
Appeal to emotion
Post hoc
Ad populum
This fallacy occurs when evidence is boiled down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be right:"
ad populum
circular reasoning
claim of value
faulty analogy
"Everyone else believes it, so it must be true."
Hasty Generalization
Moral Equivalence
Red Herring
Ad Populum
Yeah, I know some people say that cheating on tests is wrong. But we all know that everyone does it, so it's okay.
Ad Populum
Sunk Cost
Ad Hominem
False Analogy
