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Name that Fallacy 1
Name that Fallacy 2
ID the Fallacy 1
ID the Fallacy 2
Grab Bag!!
100
This fallacy assumes that a statement is self-evident (or true) when it actually requires proof. 
What is "Begging the Question"?
100
This fallacy occurs when you present a weak argument that is easily refuted. 
What is a straw man fallacy?
100

Identify the logical fallacy: I don’t understand why you’re saying I broke a promise. I said I’d never speak again to my ex-girlfriend. And I didn’t. I just sent her some text messages.

What is an equivocation?
100
Identify the fallacy: "Hillary Clinton wants us to vote for her, but she will be sixty-nine when she becomes president. I think that this is a problem." 
What is a red herring?
100
This fallacy is closely related to the "Begging the Question" fallacy.
What is circular reasoning?
200
This fallacy occurs when someone supports a statement by restating it in different terms.
What is circular reasoning?
200
This fallacy occurs when someone reaches a conclusion that is based on far too little evidence to support it. 



What is a hasty generalization?
200
Identify the fallacy: If we allow the government to regulate gun ownership, what's to stop them from regulating who we love or where we live or what we study?
What is a slippery slope?
200
Identify the fallacy: Nine out of ten teachers recommend Grammarly to help students with their writing. 


Small print: Sample Size: 10. All teachers were given free, lifetime subscriptions to Grammarly.

What is a misuse of statistics?
200
This fallacy get's its name from old military and boxing training dummies.
What is the strawman fallacy?
300
This fallacy occurs when you attack the character or the motives of a person instead of issues or argument.


Think Latin.

What is an ad hominem fallacy?
300
This fallacy arises when you present only two choices despite the fact that there are many more possibilities.
What is the either/or fallacy?
300
Identify the fallacy: But mom! All of my friends are doing it!
What is a bandwagon fallacy?
300
Identify the fallacy: How can you tell me not to drink when you used to be an alcoholic?
What is a tu quoque?
300
A conclusion that is based on a "Begging the Question" fallacy can never be what?
What is valid?
400
This fallacy asserts that a statement is false because it is inconsistent with what a speaker has said or done.


Inkthay inyay Atinlay.

What is Tu Quoque?
400
This fallacy occurs when a conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. 


Think Latin.

What is a non sequitur? 
400
Identify the fallacy: A university professor speaks out again human rights abuses in Sri Lanka during the Tamil/Sinhalese Ethnic Battles.


Professor's Ph.D. Comparative Victorian Literature.

What is an appeal to doubtful authority? 
400
Identify the fallacy: Dr. Paiz has an iPhone X and Airpods, so he must be earning a lot of money. 
What is a non sequitur? 
400
This scholar and novelist advocates for the acceptance of multiple varieties of English. 


He also regularly writes in China English.

Who is Ha Jin?
500

This fallacy occurs when the difference between the two things being compared is so great that it effectiveness is greatly diminished. 

What is a weak analogy?
500
This fallacy asserts that because two events occured closely in time, one even must have caused the other. 


It's Latin.

What is post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
500
Identify the fallacy: I can't believe that you still support traditional grading at the university level. Either you're for supporting student learning, or your against it. 
What is an either/or fallacy?
500

Identify the fallacy: You have limited my right to express my thoughts because you didn't give me an A on my last essay.

What is begging the question?
500
Joseph Williams was writing for this discipline when he wrote "The Phenomenology of Error"?
What is Rhetoric and Composition?