Fallacies Definitions
A fallacy in which selecting certain data to prove your argument or finding certain patterns to fit your argurment.
What is Texas Sharpshooter?
The following is an example of a _________ fallacy: We must act now! Its either we destroy them, or they eradicate us.
What is black-or-white?
Example of __________ fallacy: It doesn't matter if you went to harvard, you are incompetent and your argument is disappointing.
What is ad hominem?
Example of __________ fallacy: Sprinkling in fun facts to your argument won't hide your lack of morals and bigotry views.
What is ad hominem?
A fallacy in which someone uses the opinion or position of someone in power in place of an actual argument.
What is Appeal to Authority?
A fallacy in which you manipulate an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
What is an appeal to emotion?
The following is an example of a _________ fallacy: The idea of artificial intelligence came from science fiction, so AI isn't real.
What is a genetic fallacy?
Example of __________ fallacy: I told my brother that I like mexican food more than pizza, he concluded that I must hate italian food.
What is strawman?
Example of __________ fallacy: People who smoke are more likely to have lung cancer. Therefore, having lung cancer makes you more likely to smoke.
What is false cause?
A fallacy in which you use personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics.
What is an anecdotal fallacy?
A fallacy in which someone can't understand something so they believe it to be false.
What is Personal Incredulity Fallacy?
The following is an example of a _________ fallacy: The Sign said "road work ahead" so I drove fast, because I knew the roads ahead work.
What is ambiguity?
Example of __________ fallacy: If you don't recycle your soda bottle today, your plastics will pollute the oceans, leading to increased climate change rates, and the death of the planet.
What is slippery slope?
Example of __________ fallacy: No true fan would boo their own team.
What is no true scotsman?
A fallacy in which you ask a loaded question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty.
What is a loaded question?
A fallacy in which you move the goalposts to create expections when a claim is shown to be false.
What is special pleading?
The following is an example of a _________ fallacy: I never thought I would buy a xbox, but all my friends were doing it and I finally decided how to spend my christmas money.
What is bandwagon?
Example of __________ fallacy: Everyone believes the Earth is flat, so it must be true.
What is ad populum?
Example of __________ fallacy: Officer Ortega said that eating donuts cause cancer, therefore I stopped eating Donuts so I don't get cancer.
What is Red Herring?
A fallacy in which you presume that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.
What is a false cause?
A fallacy in which you avoid having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering criticism with criticism
What is tu quoque?
The following is an example of a _________ fallacy: John says the sky is blue and sarah thinks its red, so the sky must be purple.
What is middle ground?
Example of __________ fallacy: I was sitting with my cousin when he turned to ask me: "have you stopped beating your wife?"
What is loaded question?
Example of __________ fallacy: I asked the class "if heat actualy rises, why is space cold? Everyone pondered, but nobody had a rebuttal; so heast must not rise.
What is burden of proof?
A fallacy in which you assume that whats true about one part has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it.
What is composition/division?