Fishing for Red Herrings
Hasty Gen Pudding
Don't be a Straw Man
It's a Slippery Slope
Well, that was Non Sequitur
100
Anthony and Marie have a heated argument. During their fight, Anthony tells Marie that he hates her and wished that she would get hit by a bus. Later that evening, Anthony receives a call from a friend who tells him that Marie is in the hospital because she was struck by a bus. Anthony immediately blames himself and reasons that if he hadn't made that comment during their fight, Marie would not have been hit. What logical fallacy has Anthony committed?
a.) Slippery slope
b.) False Causality (also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc)
c.) Ad hominem
d.) Red herring
b.) False Causality
100
Debbie: I think capital punishment is a necessary component of our justice system and should remain legal.
Dylan: So you are saying that murder should be legal and it is okay for us to go around killing people just because we think they deserve it? That isn't right.
a.) Straw man
b.) Hasty generalization
c.) Appeal to False Authority
d.) Red herring
a.) Straw man
100
Name that Fallacy: We should abolish the death penalty. Many respected people, such as actor Guy Handsome, have publicly stated their opposition to it.
Appeal to False alse Authority
100
Name that Fallacy: Sliding between two or more different meanings of a single word or phrase that is important to the argument.
i.e."Giving money to charities is the right thing to do. So charities have a right to our money.
Equivocation
100
Name that Fallacy: Many arguments rely on an analogy between two or more objects, ideas, or situations. Two things being compared that aren't really alike
False Analogy
200
Louise is running for class president. In her campaign speech she says, "My opponent does not deserve to win. She is a smoker and she cheated on her boyfriend last year." What fallacy has Louise committed?
a.) Appeal to authority
b.) Ad hominem
c.) Straw man
d.) Red herring
b.) Ad hominem
200
Dana is trying to raise money for her university's library. In her address to the board of trustees, she says, "We must raise tuition to cover the cost of new books. Otherwise the library will be forced to close."
a.) Appeal to false authority
b.) Slippery slope
c.) Either-or
d.) Equivocation
c.) Either-or
200
Name that Fallacy: We must have a poltergeist in the house. When the dog ran under the table the vase just seemed to jump off the shelf all by itself.
Non sequitur
200
Name that Fallacy: Begs reader to accept conclusion without providing real evidence; relies on premise that says same things as conclusion, or simply ignores an important assumption that the argument rests on.
Begging the Question
200
Name that Fallacy: a fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented
Slippery Slope
300
Consider the following conversation:
Bill: I think capital punishment is wrong.
Adam: No it isn't. If it was wrong, it wouldn't be legal.
Of which fallacy is this an example?
a.) Dogmatism
b.) Hasty Generaliztion
c.) Begging the question
d.) Ad hominem
c.) Begging the Question
300
Name the Fallacy: Either join in political life or resign yourself to a lonely and meaningless existence.
Either-or
300
Name that Fallacy: Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that.
Strawman
300
Name that Fallacy: Arguer sets up situation as if only two choices; eliminates one of the choices, so seems left only w/one option-one the arguer wants us to pick in first place.
Either-or
300
Name that Fallacy: the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation; after this, therefore because of this.
Faulty Causality (also known as Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc)
400
Ricky is watching television when he sees a commercial for foot cream. The commercial announcer says, "This is the best foot cream in the world. It is everyone's favorite foot cream." What fallacy has the announcer committed?
a.) Equivocation
b.) Non Sequitur
c.) Straw man
d.) Hasty generalization
d.) Hasty Generalization
400
Name the Fallacy: Once your kids are watching cartoons, they're also watching those toy commercials. If they see the commercials they'll want the toys; before you know it, they're obsessed with the toys and you've lost all control over them. So don't let children watch cartoons.
Slippery Slope
400
Name that Fallacy: Karen tells her daughter Angie to eat her vegetables. Angie replies, “You won’t be happy until I’m a vegetarian.”
Straw Man
400
Name that Fallacy: Partway through an argument; arguer goes off on a tangent, raising a side issue that distracts the audience from what's really at stake. Often, arguer never returns to original issue.
Red Herring
400
Name that Fallacy: Making assumptions about a whole group or range of causes based on a sample that is inadequate.
i.e. stereotypes about people; "grad students are nerdy"
Hasty Generalization
500
Jeff's mom is concerned when she finds out that he skipped class one day. She tells him that she is concerned that since he skipped one class, he will start skipping more frequently. Then he will drop out altogether, never graduate or get into college, and end up unemployed and living at home for the rest of his life. What type of fallacy has Jeff's mom committed?
a.) Equivocation
b.) Slippery slope
c.) Red Herring
d.) Hasty generalization
b.) Slippery Slope
500
My friend said her Spanish class was hard, and the one I'm in is hard, too. All Spanish classes must be hard.
Hasty Generalization
500
Name that Fallacy: A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect that people have for a celebrity/person who is not credible in the field in which they argue.
Appeal to False Authority
500
Name that Fallacy: Involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position; hoping to cause lower image of opponent
Straw Man
500
Name that Fallacy: This is the general category of many fallacies that use emotion in place of reason in order to attempt to win the argument. It is a type of manipulation used in place of valid logic.
Overly Sentimental Appeal