Logical Fallacies

Rejecting an argument based on a person's habits, personality, morals, or character. Talking bad about the person without addressing the argument.

• red herring

• bandwagon

• double standard

• ad hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument

• slippery slope

• ad hominem

• red herring

• straw man

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it

• bandwagon

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Arguing that one action will definitely lead to something drastically worse, without sufficient evidence

• correlation no causation

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

• double standard

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Ignoring a person's actual position and substituting a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.

• begging the claim

• red herring

• straw man

• correlation no causation

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

making a claim about a large population based on very little evidence

• double standard

• ad hominem

• straw man

• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Using loaded language to push ideas instead of proving them.

• appeal to authority

• begging the claim

• red herring

• bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The belief that an argument is true because it is made by someone perceived to have authority.

• ad hominem

• straw man

• slippery slope

• appeal to authority

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Judging situations by different standards instead of using the same standards for all

• correlation no causation

• bandwagon

• double standard

• begging the claim

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Assuming that because two things happened, one caused the other.

• slippery slope

• straw man

• correlation no causation

• appeal to authority

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1