Fallacies

An error in reasoning

• Falsehood

• Rhetorical Devices

• Logical Fallacies

• Mistake

Everyone voted for Sarah as class president, so I am going to vote for her too. 

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

People who do not support the proposed state minimum wage increase hate the poor.

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

Match the definition with the fallacy: "if you allow x to happen, then y will happen"

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

• Scare Tactic

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Scare Tactic

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

If you break your diet and have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10 cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have gained back the 15 pounds you lost.

• hasty generalization
• slippery slope
• bad analogy
• loaded language

Sally is asking Sam why he decided to buy a bunch of junk food when they had agreed to try to save money. Sam’s response is that Sally bought a new video game last week so she shouldn’t be criticizing him.

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

• False Analogy

• Straw Man

Match the definition with the fallacy: "going with the crowd/argues that because everyone else believes something it must be true"

• Scare Tactic

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

"There are so many dishes all over the place! You never do your dishes!"

"What about you?! You never take out the trash!"

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

• Straw Man

• False Analogy

We need to stop allowing colleges to increase tuition every year. The next thing we know, it's going to cost more to attend college for one semester than it is to buy a new home!

• bandwagon
• slippery slope
• hasty generalization
• equivocation