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Which logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
If America doesn’t send weapons to the Syrian rebels, they won’t be able to defend themselves against their warring dictator. They’ll lose their civil war, and that dictator will oppress them, and the Soviets will consequently carve out a sphere of influence across the entire Middle East
Slippery Slope
What logical fallacy is being represented in the following scenario?
"What do you know about politics? You didn't even go to college"
Positive, negative or neutral association of a word
Connotation
Which logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
Smoking cigarettes can kill you because cigarettes are deadly.
Circular Argument
Which logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
A politician degrading another politician during a political campaign when asked about a specific policy – “Well, I think we need to look at the other candidate’s failures regarding this topic.”
Ad Hominem
How the speaker feels about the topic
Tone
Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
Appeal to pathos
means "it does not follow"; the follow-up statement does not logically develop from the initial statement
Non- sequitur
What logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
The doctors can't explain how she woke from the coma so it must have been the power of our prayers.
Appeal to ignorance
The art of persuasion
rhetoric
What logical fallacy is being represented in the following scenario?
Hi Teacher, will you give me an extension on the homework because my boyfriend broke up with me and I was up all night crying?
Appeal to pity
This fallacy aims to compare or contrast things that are too dissimilar to be effective
Weak Analogy
This fallacy is also known as Fallacy of Insufficient Sample, Leaping to A Conclusion too quickly
Which logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
My brother works for a car rental company and he says the Chevy truck is better than the Ford truck, so we should get the Chevy truck.
Appeal to authority
If the entire premise of the argument is that “a famous person believes it so it must be true,” or if your endorser doesn’t have anything to do with the topic of your argument
A commercial comes on the TV asking for money to help remove animals from abusive homes and shows a slide show of cute kittens and puppies.
Appeal to Emotion
Interpreted meaning of a word
Connotation
What logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
My refrigerator is acting up. I’d better finish that book by Friday.
Non-sequitur
What logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
Drake created this candle so I will buy it because he's my favorite music artist.
Which logical fallacy is being represented in the following scenario?
An addiction to drugs or alcohol can completely ruin someone’s life. If you play too many video games and get addicted, you’re going to ruin your life too.
Weak Analogy
Which logical fallacy is represented in the following scenario?
Drinking alcohol at age 18 is against the law because it’s wrong; I know it’s wrong
because it’s against the law.
Circular Argument
An argument that insists that because a position cannot be proven, it must be false or, alternatively, if a position cannot be proven wrong, it must be true.
Appeal to ignorance
This is the fallacy of using too small a sample. If the sample is too small to provide a representative sample of the population, yet we still accept the generalization upon the sample results, then we commit this fallacy.
Hasty Generalization
A logical fallacy in which the person comes to a conclusion that does not follow the logic of the argument.
Non-sequitur
Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation