2021

FALLACIES OF
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.

Benedicta Nwaefido, TFL333 Zhanerke Abdirakhym

People who have to have a cup of coffee every
morning before they can function have no less
a problem than alcoholics who have to have
their alcohol each day to sustain them.

WEAK ANALOGY
 Sometimes people have no
proper channel of
WEAK expressing their idea or
concern. They may use the

ANALOGY closet analogy they can

think of because their is no
“proof” of their concept.
America as a whole likes
HASTY
bombing foreign nations. GENERALIZATION
Therefore all Americans

A hasty generalization is just assuming that

support bombing foreign all x-es are P because you saw a few that
were. “I’ve only seen red apples, so all apples
nations. are red.”
 THE QUESTIONABLE
CAUSE
EVERY TIME I TRY TO SLEEP, I
LISTEN TO ASMR. THEREFORE, is a category of informal
WHEN I LISTEN ASMR, IT MEANS fallacies in which a cause
THAT I'M GOING TO SLEEP. is incorrectly identified.
 ADELE ONCE SAID THAT
"HER CAREER'S NOT HER
ytirohtuA
ot laeppA
LIFE. IT'S HER HOBBY."
SO, MY CAREER SHOULD
ALSO BE MY HOBBY!

INSISTING THAT A CLAIM IS TRUE

SIMPLY BECAUSE A VALID
AUTHORITY OR EXPERT ON THE
ISSUE SAID IT WAS TRUE, WITHOUT
ANY OTHER SUPPORTING
EVIDENCE OFFERED.
 APPEAL TO
IGNORANCE

The assumption of a conclusion or fact-based primarily

on lack of evidence to the contrary. Usually best
described by, “absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence.”

The doctors can't explain how she woke from the

coma so it must have been the power of our prayers.
 References:
Wikipedia contributors. (2021, July 8). Questionable cause. Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questionable_cause#:%7E:text=The%20questionable%20cause%E2%80%94also%20known,a%20c
ause%20is%20incorrectly%20identified.&text=Therefore%2C%20my%20going%20to%20sleep,but%20have%20no%20causal%2
0connection.

Appeal to Authority. (2012). Appeal to Authority. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/cgi-

bin/uy/webpages.cgi?/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Authority
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Thank
You

Zhanerke Abdirakhym