NAME THAT FALLACY
We must install surveillance cameras in every classroom — anyone who opposes this clearly doesn’t care about protecting our children.
What is Appeal to Authority?
Everyone’s buying the newest iPhone. If you don’t get one, you’ll fall behind.
What is bandwagon?
A reporter asks a pop star, “Have you stopped lip-syncing during concerts yet?”
What is loaded question?
Your older sibling argues they shouldn’t have to do chores this week because they're just more tired than everyone else.
What is special pleading?
No true fan of this singer would ever criticize their new album
what is no true scotsman?
Either you're with us, or you're against us.
What is false dilemma?
Freedom means doing whatever you want. So any law against personal choices is a violation of freedom.
What is ambiguity?
I say ghosts are real, and since you can’t prove they aren’t, I must be right.” This fallacy wrongly shifts the responsibility of evidence
What is burden of proof?
Your cousin insists therapy doesn’t work because their friend went once and didn’t get better.
what is anecdotal?
When fans believe a singer’s next album must be a hit because their last two flopped, they’re falling for this mistaken belief that past outcomes affect independent future events.
what is gambler's fallacy?
A charity commercial shows heartbreaking images of starving children and says, “If you don’t donate now, these children may not survive another day. How could you turn your back on them?”
What is Appeal to Emotion?
During a school debate on environmental policy, a student responds: “Why should we listen to her? She flies on airplanes all the time.”
What is ad Hominem?
You say I shouldn’t lie, but you lied last week!
What is Tu Quoque?
If you don’t come to the family reunion, it’ll break your grandmother’s heart!
What is Appeal to Emotion?
Blaming a celebrity’s career drop on a recent scandal without evidence illustrates this fallacy of assuming cause from sequence.
what is false cause?
A school board member argues, “If we allow students to retake one test, next they’ll expect to retake every assignment, then grades will stop mattering, and soon we’ll have total academic chaos.”
What is Slippery Slope?
A reporter asks a politician, “Have you stopped accepting illegal donations yet?”
Why is this a logical fallacy?
What is Loaded Question?
“Every brick in this building is small, so the building must be small too.” This reasoning mistake confuses parts with the whole.
what is composition fallacy ?
your mother claims that bad things always happen when you skip family dinners, so skipping them must be the cause.
What is the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy?
Rejecting a celebrity’s new movie just because it’s produced by a controversial studio is an example of which fallacy that attacks the origin rather than the work itself?.
what is genetic fallacy?
During a classroom debate, one student argues that schools should offer more mental health support. Another responds, “So you’re saying teachers should just stop teaching and become therapists now?” — What logical fallacy is being used, and how does it distort the original argument?
What is Straw man?
Your argument about climate change uses a slippery slope fallacy, so climate change must not be real.
Herbal remedies are better than medicine because they’re natural.
what is Appeal to nature?
Your aunt says astrology is 100% scientifically valid. Your cousin says it’s total nonsense. A relative jumps in:
“Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle—maybe some astrology is real.”
What is middle ground?
Saying “I don’t get how this celebrity became famous, so their success can’t be real”
what is personal incredulity?