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100


What is slippery slope?

100

Mom: Jenna, Jill told me that you didn't clean your room.

Jenna: Well neither did Jill!

What is tu quoque?

100

What is false dilemma?

200


What is appeal to ignorance?
200

Officer, everyone was going this speed.

What is ad populum?

200

Freebie!

200


What is straw man?
300


What is false authority?

300

For example, in the 1990s, many people started to believe that childhood vaccinations, particularly the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine, could cause children to develop autism. 

orrrr

Lucky socks win the game.

What is post hoc?

400


What is ad misercordiam?

400

"Maryland v. Pringle (2003). In this case, a police officer stopped a car for speeding, in which Joseph Pringle was a passenger. Upon searching the car, the cop found over $750 in the glove compartment and a stash of cocaine behind the armrest of the back seat. He then arrested Pringle and the car’s two other occupants, despite all three individuals denying ownership of the drugs and money. "

What is guilt by association?

400

What is oversimplification/ hasty generalization?

400

Those who support Trump are racist because Trump is racist.

"Of course, mainstream liberal media aren't going to say that Barack Obama is a Muslim."

What is a genetic fallacy?

500


What is card stacking?

500

"During the Cold War, Congressman Charles Rose (Democrat, North Carolina) answered (in part) the arguments of those opposed to government-sponsored research to develop "remote-viewing" the ability to see a distant place telepathically by stating, "It seems to me that it would be a hell of a cheap radar system. This country wasn't afraid to look into the strange physics behind lasers and semiconductors, and I don't think we should be afraid to look into this."

What is false analogy?

500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-m3RtoguAQ

(at least 3 logical fallacies)

What are:

False dilemma

False analogy

Non sequitur

False authority

Over simplification

Hasty generalization

?

500

The Requerimiento [Requirement] was written in 1510 by the Council of Castile to be read aloud as an ultimatum to conquered Indians in the Americas. It asserted the religious authority of the Roman Catholic pope over the entire earth, and the political authority of Spain over the Americas (except Brazil) from the 1493 papal bull that divided the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal. It demanded that the conquered peoples accept Spanish rule and Christian preaching or risk subjugation, enslavement, and death. Often the Requerimiento was read in Latin to the Indians with no interpreters present, or even delivered from shipboard to an empty beach, revealing its prime purpose as self-justification for the Spanish invaders.

What is ad baculum?