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WorksheetsLogical Fallacies
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
If you eat a good diet, you will never have a heart attack.
Misplaced cause and effect
Band Wagon
Ambiguity
Hasty Generalization
Everyone knows that teenagers are lazy
Ad Hominem
Band Wagon
Appeals to Emotion
Hasty Generalization
Which logical fallacy is shown in this example:
Half the people on the jury already believe that the defendant killed her husband, and that many people can't be wrong.
Slippery Slope
Overgeneralization
Ad Populum
Which fallacy presents only two opposing options, with no other alternatives. It uses the "you are either for us, or against us" rhetoric?
"Either the butler did it, or the witness for the defense is lying."
Red herring
False anatomy
Ad hominem (personal attack)
Either/or reasoning, false dichotomy
Which fallacy appeals to the popular idea or concept as the correct course of action?
"Everybody in our family goes to Georgetown for undergrad, so it only makes sense that you do, too."
Hasty generalization
False analogy
Ad populum/bandwagon
Circular reasoning
__________ is a mistake in reasoning, a flawed argument used just to win a debate, a distraction from the actual argument, or a foundational weakness in reasoning.
Valid Argument
The Statue Quo
Ad Hominem
Logical Fallacy
Why is it important to know logical fallacies?
To get into arguments
To impress your teacher and classmates
To detect errors in your writing as well as others
None of the above
"Russia has a terrible human rights record." "Well, the United States has done plenty of bad things." -the President when confronted about Russia's human rights abuses.
slippery slope
red herring
moral equivalence
non sequitur
Faulty Causality
False Authority
Either/Or (False Dichotomy)
Bandwagon
Diverting attention from something (usually something the arguer wants to avoid) by changing the subject to something else.
hasty generalization
moral equivalence
non-sequitur
red herring
