Name the Fallacies
Relevance Fallacies are also known as.
What is Red Herrings?
Argument from Modesty
What is Appeal to Authority
You really should get a Prudential life insurance policy. What would happen to your spouse and children if you die? Remember, you are their main source of income. Would they be forced to move?
Scare Tactics
The Supreme Leader told the people they were either on his side, or they were on the side of the enemy.
What is Either or
A fallacy in which the author makes a conclusion based on a lack of evidence.
What is appeal to ignorance?
Since I'm not lying, I must be telling the truth.
What is Begging the Question
When a speaker or writer “supports” a contention by playing on our emotions rather than by producing a real argument.
Appeal to emotion
What do I think about outlawing large ammunition clips? I think the idea of disarming everyone is ridiculous and dangerous. (What fallacy is being used?)
Straw Man Fallacy
The word of Zorbo the Great is flawless and perfect. We know this because it says so in The Great and Infallible Book of Zorbo's Best and Most Truest Things that are Definitely True and Should Not Ever Be Questioned.
What is Begging the Question
Making a statement that assumes the question being argued has already been proven
Begging the question
This fallacy is mostly seen in political campaigns.
What is Argumentum Ad Hominem?
Speakers and writers sometimes try to get us to dismiss what someone is going to say by talking about the person’s consistency or character or circumstances.
Poisoning the well
You don't support the war? You must hate the troops. (What Fallacy is being used?)
Non Sequitur
The following is an example of a __________ fallacy: Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies.
What is an ad hominem fallacy?
A fallacy in which the author attempts to anticipate the opposition, but fails because the oppositional point addressed is one of the weakest points
What is a straw man fallacy?
This relevance fallacy doesn’t fit well with other fallacy categories.
What is an irrelevant conclusion
Dismissing a contention by distorting or misrepresenting it
What is straw man
You told me that eating chocolate is bad for my health, but I've seen you always eating chocolate. (What Fallacy is being used?)
Relevance Fallacy
After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.
What is Straw Man
A Fallacy that tries to justify support of negative appraisal of ethics, instead of a positive appraisal in arguments.
What is Two Wrongs Make a Right Fallacy?
Either you're for the Republican plan, or you're socialist and un-American.
What is Either or
Speaker or writer tries to scare us into accepting an irrelevant conclusion
Scare Tactics
”Obviously the governor told the truth about the budget. He wouldn’t lie to us about it.” is an example of...
Begging the Question
Luke didn't want to eat his Brussel sprouts, but his father told him to think about the poor, starving children in a third world country who weren't fortunate enough to have any food at all.
What is Appeal to Emotion
A fallacy in which the author attacks the person making the opposing argument, rather than the argument itself.
What is an ad hominem fallacy?