Logical Fallacies #1

All millennials are karens.

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Appeal to authority: 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.

• Post hoc: Claiming that because event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X, without properly establishing what really caused event Y.

Republicans are racists.

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• False Dichotomy: When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes

“People nowadays only vote with their emotions instead of their brains.”

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Post hoc: Claiming that because event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X, without properly establishing what really caused event Y.

• False Dichotomy: When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes

Parents today would rather their kids suppress their identity rather than just be who they are even if it doesn't go with the norm.

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Appeal to authority: 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.

People who read are smart.

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Appeal to authority: 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.

person 1 : "We should argue with logic facts"

person 2: "You should grow a brain before you open your mouth"

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Appeal to authority: 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.

• False Dichotomy: When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes

Person 1:

"I am for raising the minimum wage in our state."

Person 2:

"She is for raising the minimum wage, but she is not smart enough to even run a business."

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Post hoc: Claiming that because event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X, without properly establishing what really caused event Y.

Lily says the sun is fully risen at 5:00am, but how would she know she sleeps in until noon.

(love you lily all jokes all jokes)

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Appeal to authority: 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.

“My wife wants to talk about cleaning out the garage, so I asked her what she wants to do with our patio furniture. Now she’s shopping for new patio furniture and not asking me about the garage.”

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Ad hominem: attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Post hoc: Claiming that because event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X, without properly establishing what really caused event Y.

dude #1: "I support Black Lives Matter's mission to establish and put into better practice restorative justice..."

dude #2: But don't all lives matter?

dude #1: Of course, but I'm telling you about the mission of BLM.

• Hasty Generalization: Conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

• Red Herring: redirecting the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. The deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.

• Post hoc: Claiming that because event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X, without properly establishing what really caused event Y.

• False Dichotomy: When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes