Logical
Fallacies
Are
Friends
Not Food
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What is the definition of false cause ?
Accusing something irrelevant caused an event to occur, due to it happening right before or after the event.
100
What is the definition of bandwagon?
It is when something is believed about someone( or thing) because many people say so.
100
What type of fallacy is this, If Donald Trump is elected he might get assassinated because everyone hates Donald trump
Overgeneralization
100
What is the definition of False Dilemma
"Either/Or Fallacy", when both reasons are falsely extreme and do not show a midpoint. Two extremes, no neutral
100
What is the definition for Argument from ignorance
Saying something that is true because it can not be proven otherwise.
200
What is Circular Reasoning?
When the assertions's proof is just a restated version of the assertion.
200
give an example of circular reasoning
Answers may vary
200
What is Straw man fallacy?
Taking a persons argument and change/twist their words to something completely opposite.
200
What is a slippery slope fallacy?
The slippery slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts, without proof, that will start a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things
200
What is Ad Hominem?
When you attack the person, not their argument
300
What type of fallacy is this? People switching to popular team because their team didn't make it to final.
Bandwagon
300
What type of fallacy is this? Jake and Alex was arguing about who gets to take a shower first, Then Maria comes up and says she gets to because they at all the cereal yesterday morning.
Red Herring
300
Which Fallacy is this? Two men are arguing about which taste better, a hotdog or a burger. One yells at the other ¨Of course you like hotdogs! It´s because you look like and smell like one!¨
Ad Hominem
300
What type of fallacy is this? "The basketball player missed his layup; therefore no basketball player can make a layup."
Overgeneralization
300
Define Overgeneralization
its proven to be true on one person its proven on everything or everyone.
400
True or false? Does the fallacy red herring attack the person instead of the actual argument?
False, red herring neither attacks the argument or the person, it is a distraction from the topic.
400
In oversimplification, you reduce a problem with multiple causes to __________ cause(s).
one
400
After i got my new shoes my dog got hit by a car therefore the shoes killed my dog. What type of fallacy is this?
False Cause
400
True or False: overgeneralization is when something/someone is trying to attack a whole group of things when its just one's doing, assuming everything is like it in the same group
True
400
What is the definition of circular reasoning?
Circular reasons is a logical fallacy that starts and end at the same pla
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what does straw man mean?
Straw man is to twist someones words into the opposite of what they meant.
500
False cause is also referred to as what?
Post Hoc
500
"People who passed test were lucky" is an example of what
Oversimplification
500
What is Circular Reasoning?
Proving your claim with your assertion.
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What is it called whenever two people are arguing in a conversation but someone introduces an unconnected topic into the argument to get people's attention away from the original conversation
Red Herring
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