Creative Writing Logical Fallacy Test

a logical fallacy that occurs when someone assumes a causal relationship between two events based solely on the order in which they occur, without sufficient evidence

• Red Herring

• Post Hoc

• Straw man

• Doubtful Authority

a type of logical fallacy that involves attacking an argument by pointing out the speaker's personal circumstances or actions that are inconsistent with their argument

• Equivocation

• Red Herring

• Tu Quoque

• Strawman

a logical fallacy that occurs when someone claims that a claim is true because an authority figure made it, even if the authority figure is not qualified to make reliable claims on the subject

• Doubtful Authority

• Tu Quoque

• Post Hoc

• Syllogism

Attacking the person making the argument, rather than addressing the argument the person is making

• Syllogism

• Ad Hominem

• Post Hoc

• Equivocation

The argument that one event will lead to a series of events and eventually will lead to something very bad

• Equivocation

• Ad Hominem

• Circular Reasoning

• Slippery Slope

Response that presents two options as if they are the only options available, when there are actually more possibilities

• False Dilemma

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• Doubtful Authority

occurs when statistical reasoning is false or misapplied

• Ad Hominem

• Post Hoc

• Misleading Statistics

• Non Sequitur

is Latin for "it does not follow", is a statement or conclusion that doesn't logically follow from what came before it

• Misleading Statistics

• Post Hoc

• Non Sequitur

• Hasty Generalization

Making a claim or drawing a conclusion without having enough information

• Non Sequitur

• Post Hoc

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

a logical fallacy that occurs when the evidence used to support a claim assumes that the claim is true

• Ad Hominem

• Circular Reasoning

• Hasty Generalization

• Red Herring