Name That Fallacy 1
Water bottles are bad for the environment because they're bad for nature.
Circular Reasoning
It's okay to cheat on exams because everybody does it.
Bandwagon
This fallacy refers to an attempt to change the subject and divert attention from the original issue. In other words, a seemingly solid but ultimately irrelevant argument is introduced into the discussion, either on purpose or by mistake
Red Herring
This fallacy occurs when someone uses the authority, reputation, or expertise of a person or a source as the sole or primary reason to support their argument, without providing any other evidence or reasoning.
Appeal to Authority
This key element is missing in most fallacies
Evidence
If students are required to wear uniforms to school, they'll do less shopping at local clothing stores. With less business, the stores will close, which will hurt our local economy.
Slippery Slope
Caleb: "I like Chinese food more than pizza."
Mya: "So, you hate pizza."
Straw Man
This fallacy refers to the misuse of numerical data either intentionally or by error. The results provide deceiving information that creates false narratives around a topic.
Faulty Statistics
This is the logical fallacy of claiming that a statement must be true because there's no evidence against it.
appeal to ignorance
Can you make a claim and say that something is true if you have only an example or two as evidence?
Nope! That's hasty generalization [sunglasses emoji]
You should take those vitamins because Brad Pitt said they are the best.
Appeal to Authority
A bad boyfriend tells you he knows he is not the best partner, but you love him, so you should forgive him.
Appeal to Emotions
This fallacy involves the deliberate distortion of another person's argument. By oversimplifying or exaggerating it, the other party creates an easy-to-refute argument and then attacks it
straw man
This fallacy is characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence.
appeal to emotions
this fallacy is named after the Latin term "against the man"
ad hominem
If someone is guilty, they always try to deny their guilt. This man has never said that he is not guilty; therefore, he must be innocent.
Appeal to ignorance
I've met two people in Greece so far, and they were both nice to me. So, all the people I will meet in Greece will be nice to me.”
Hasty Generalization
Attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself, when the attack on the person is completely irrelevant to the argument.
Ad hominem: abusive
Instead of offering evidence, this argument simply repeats the conclusion.
circular reasoning
True or false: arguments with fallacies are always wrong
false: it just means the argument doesn't actually validate their premise. In other words, their argument sucks, but they aren't necessarily wrong.
Caleb: "You wouldn't understand raising a turtle because you've never had a turtle as a pet."
Ad hominem: Circumstantial
A celebrity, who uses a private jet several times a week, tweets about global warming.
tu quoque
This fallacy is an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome. It anticipates this chain of events without offering any evidence to substantiate the claim.
Slippery Slope
This fallacy attacks a person because of their alleged connection with a person or group that has an unfavorable reputation
Ad Hominem: Guilt by Association
The reason why people use fallacies
they can be persuasive, and are often used in rhetoric to encourage people to think a certain way or believe certain things.