Logical Fallacy

Forty million people won't be wrong. Please buy the latest iPhone 12.

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad hominem

Water fluoridation affects the brain. Citywide, student’s test scores began to drop five months after fluoridation began.

• Card Stacking

• Slanting

• Post Hoc

• Overgeneralization

I met a tall man who loved to eat cheese. Now I believe that all tall people like cheese.

• Hasty Generalization

• Card Stacking

• Non Sequitur

• Bandwagon

Look, you are going to have to make up your mind. Either you decide that you can afford this stereo, or you decide you are going to do without music for a while.

• False Dichotomy/Either or Or

• Argument by Analogy

• Argument from Ignorance

• Ad Baculum

We should abolish the death penalty. Even Taylor Swift is opposed to it.

• Appeal to Pity

• Appeal to Authority

• Appeal to Pity

• Bandwagon Appeal

Why should we put people on trial when we know they are guilty?

• Shifting the Burden of Proof

• Ad Hominem

• Circular Reasoning

• Begging the Question

Doctors refer to medical books all the time when they are treating patients. In the same way, I should be allowed to use a textbook in my medical exam.

• False Analogy

• Straw Man Argument

• Shifting the Burden of Proof

• Begging the Question

After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Threatening

• Argument from Ignorance

• Straw Man Argument

Luke didn't want to eat his vegetables, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who don't have anything to eat.

• Card Stacking

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Appeal to Pity

• Post Hoc

If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and you GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up poor and homeless.

• Card Stacking

• Hasty Generalization

• Slanting

• Slippery Slope