Hasty Generalization or faulty Cause

What is a logical fallacy?

• An argument with a premise and a conclusion

• An argument that contains a non-statement

• An argument that contains mistake in reasoning

• Sorry sir, please slap me

The conclusions that one thing caused another simply because one happened before the other.

• false dichotomy

• false cause

• circular reasoning

• guilt by association

Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size; a broad claim based on limited evidence.

• hasty generalization

• false causation

Southerners talk fast. I was just on the phone with one, and I could barely keep up!

• slippery slope

• circular reasoning/begging the question

• hasty generalization

• false cause

You've got to teach the boys logic! If you don't teach them logic, they won't learn how to think! And they'll become hobos and die in prison! Don't you care about your sons? (Mother to Father)

• bandwagon

• hasty generalization

• faulty cause and effect

• fallacy

You can buy the new Sensitivity perfume, or you can smell bad all day.

• faulty cause

• neither

• hasty generalization

• bandwagon

Farmer McDonald: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven't had a bit of rain. I'm tellin' you, mankind has got too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.

• faulty analogy

• faulty authority

• faulty cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc)

• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

"The two courses I took at UWI were not very interesting. I don't think its a good university."

• Ciruclar reasoning

• Ad hominem

• Hasty generalization

• False dilemma

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

• hasty generalization

• either-or fallacy

• false cause and effect

• stereotyping

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

My two front teeth fell out because I forgot to brush them this morning.

• hasty generalization

• false cause