Argument & Fallacies

A logical fallacy is

• A flaw in logic

• Seems true on the surface, but if you look closer doesn't make sense

• A bad way to make an argument

• All answers are correct

Which logical fallacy is represented in this image?

• False Authority

• Bandwagon

• Hasty Generalization

• Black & White

If I eat this donut today, I'll probably do it again tomorrow and the next day, and then I'll never be able to eat healthy again.

• False Authority

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

• Appeal to Nature

Sure, we haven't given raises in over five years to our employees, but we work really hard to make a good product. We try to ensure the best customer service, too.

• Strawman Fallacy

• False Authority

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

Which Logical Fallacy implies that because something is popular, that makes it right/valid.

• Slippery Slope

• False Authority

• Hasty Generalization

• Bandwagon

Person 1: I think pollution from humans contributes to climate change.

Person 2: So, you think humans are directly responsible for extreme weather, like hurricanes, and have caused the droughts in the southwestern U.S.?

• Appeal to Nature

• Strawman Fallacy

• Bandwagon

• Black & White

Vote for me because the other candidate is a cheat and a liar!

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

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.

• Slippery Slope
• Circular Reasoning
• False Dilemma
• Appeal to Pity

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

• Ad Hominem
• Hasty Generalization
• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Irrelevant Authority

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.

• Hasty generalization

• Appeal to emotion

• Post hoc

• Ad populum