Lincoln Douglas
Public Forum
Reasoning
Fallacies 2.0
Fallacies
100

This speaker has two rebuttal speeches

What is the Affirmative?

100

How many debates ask questions during crossfire? 

2

100

The Toulmin model has three components.

what is claim, data and warrant? 

100

Two things are shared that don't share enough similarities. 

What is False Analogy?

100

A sequence of events leads to an outlandish outcome 

What is slippery slope? 

200

This amount of prep time is given for each debater in LD

What is 4 minutes? 

200

This session of questions and answers includes all four speakers?

What is Grand Crossfire

200

This type of reasoning starts with individual examples, and leads to a generalized outcome. 

what is inductive reasoning? 

200

Premise: Albert Einstein did poorly in math in School

Conclusion: All world renowned scientists do poorly in math in school

Conclusion: I did poorly in math in school, so I will become a world renowned scientist.

What is a hasty generalization? 

200

Everybody else is doing this, so you should do it too. This is what type of fallacy? 

What is bandwagon fallacy? 

300

This speaker has a seven minute rebuttal speech

What is the negative?

300

This is the last speech a debater gives to the judges in public forum.

What is Final Focus? 

300

This type of reasoning includes a major premise, minor premise and conclusion. 

What is deductive reasoning? 

300

College A is not as good as College B because the cafeteria food at College A is not good.

What is a strawman fallacy? 

300

We are going to have the parade at 12 noon because it has always been that way. 

This is an example of what type of fallacy? 

Appeal to tradition

400

This means that both the affirmative and the negative have the responsibility to show that their side of the resolution is more desirable. 

What are parallel burdens? 

400

The First and Second speakers each give a two minute speech designed to defend the most important parts of their won case and to highlight the key weaknesses in the opponent's case. 

What is a summary speech? 

400

This type of reasoning shows the link between two events. One event happens: therefore, the next event happens. 

what is causal reasoning? 

400

Vote for Candidate Y or the purge will happen. This is what type of fallacy?

What is a false dilemma? 

400

This type of fallacy confuses sequence with cause? 

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

500

Lincoln Douglas debate is a philosophical debate which centers around this,

what is a value?

500
When judging a Public Forum debate, these four criteria must be considered. 

What is Significance of harm, causation, solution, and disadvantage? 

500

This type of reasoning has a hypothesis based off of symptoms. this is typically used in healthcare. 

What is abductive reasoning? 

500

This type of fallacy attacks the person instead of focusing on the issues. 

what is ad hominem? 

500

This type of fallacy intentionally does not address the issue in a debate? When confronted with a question, the speaker changes the topic. 

What is a red herring?