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Straw Man Fallacy Slippery Slope Fallacy

Logical Fallacies Ad Hominem Fallacy
False Dilemma Fallacy Bandwagon Fallacy
Hasty Generalization Fallacy Guilt by Association Fallacy
Appeal to Fear Fallacy

_______________________________1. Attacking someone’s character, not the claim.

_______________________________2. It is basically making a claim based on
evidence that it just too small.
_______________________________3. Occurs when someone connects an opponent
to a demonized group of people or to a bad person
in order to discredit his or her argument.
_______________________________4. sometimes called the appeal to common belief
or appeal to the masses.
_______________________________5. Sometimes called the “either-or” fallacy, a
false dilemma is a logical fallacy that presents only
two options or sides when there are many options or
sides.
_______________________________6. Errors in reasoning that are based on poor or
faulty logic.
________________________________7. means “against the man”
_______________________________8. occurs when someone takes another person’s
argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in
some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme
distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is
making.
_______________________________9. Occurs when someone makes a claim about a
series of events that would lead to one major event,
usually a bad event.
_______________________________10. This fallacy presents a scary future if a
certain decision is made.
Straw Man Fallacy Slippery Slope Fallacy
Ad Hominem Fallacy Appeal to Fear Fallacy
False Dilemma Fallacy Bandwagon Fallacy
Hasty Generalization Fallacy Guilt by Association Fallacy

1. ___________________________________How can we accept Jill’s argument in favor of

abortion rights when she herself has had three of them?
2. ___________________________________Parent: Your curfew is at 10 pm tonight.
Teenager: But the party doesn't even start until 9:00.
Parent: It's a school night, so you need to be home by 10:00.
Teenager: You just want me to be unpopular! You don't care
about my happiness!
3. ___________________________________ Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are
getting a bit messy." Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do
we have to clean them out every day?"
4. ___________________________________We have to stop the tuition increase! The next
thing you know, they'll be charging P100,000 a semester!"
5. ___________________________________"Look, you are going to have to make up your
mind. Either you decide that you agree to abide by the laws in this country or
move somewhere else."
6. ___________________________________The Irish should not be allowed to vote because
they are all drunks.
7. ___________________________________Senator: I will vote to increase the defense budget.
Public: Why don't you care about education?
8. ___________________________________ Shan is a member of the Dog Lovers Club, and last
year one of their members was suspended for abusing a cat. Rex must want to
hurt cats.
9. ___________________________________ Most people don't believe that women should be
allowed to vote, therefore it must be the right decision.
10. ___________________________________A mother tells her children not to leave the yard
because there could be wild animals in the woods.
11. ___________________________________ Christa is thinking about becoming a vegetarian.
Then she learns that many mass murderers were also vegetarians. So, she keeps
eating meat.
12. ___________________________________ First, they’ll allow residents to keep chickens in
their yards, then they’ll start allowing people to keep pigs and sheep. Soon, this
entire neighborhood will be one giant livestock farm.
13. ____________________________________ “You’re wrong because recent data show that the
issue is multifaceted and thus cannot be solved through a simple budget
increase. You’re dumb for using simplistic thinking.”
14. ____________________________________ If we want to make campus safer, we can either
install more security cameras or ban visitors.
15. ___________________________________ Her diet consisted only of burgers, and she lived
to be a 102. That means burgers must be the healthiest food on the planet.