Logical Fallacies 1
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What is false dilemma?
A discussion technique that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, therefore accusing hypocrisy.
What is tu quoque?
The appeal to emotion means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.
What is pathos?
The year the Berlin Wall fell.
What is 1989?
A black cat crossed my path, and then I got into a car accident. The black cat caused the car accident.
What is post hoc, ergo propter hoc (faulty causality)?
Building new cell phone towers will disorient birds, which will lead to insect infestations due to a lack of predators for them.
What is slippery slope?
Sam got the bumper of his car hit by another driver. It turns out that the other driver is a woman. Sam was in a previous car accident with another woman too. Sam concludes that because this is the second time he got into a small fender bender with a woman, women don’t know how to drive.
What is a hasty generalization?
As a three-time Olympic gold medalist, I can assure you that this energy drink will improve your fitness and stamina.
What is ethos?
This was the last major battle of the war, fought just 350 miles from Japan.
What is Okinawa?
You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen, too, therefore A should not happen.
What is slippery slope?
You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.
What is ad hominem?
To appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.
What is logos?
A flamboyance is a group of these.
What are flamingos?
The Smiths, the Browns, the Whites, and the Joneses are all moving out of Farquhar Farms and into Chompley Gardens. Chompley Gardens is obviously a much more comfortable place to live than Farquhar Farms.
What is bandwagon?
Peace is the best strategy because Einstein said so.
What is appeal to false authority?
You said that because an important person thinks something, it must therefore be true.
What is the appeal to false authority?
If we don't move by tomorrow, we're all going to die!
What is Kairos?
An award winning author of a trilogy named after varying stages of nighttime, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and survivor of the Holocaust.
Who is Ellie Wiesel?
In the company that Sheryl works for, all work emails must be sent off by 1 pm.
After she is finished sending off the emails she is very hungry. She thinks to herself that those emails were really hard work and she worked up a real hunger typing them up.
What is faulty causality?
Murder is always morally wrong. Therefore, abortion is morally wrong.
What is the begging the question or circular reasoning?
Girls are more docile and want to please others. Boys are not as good at listening to instructions and are less attentive.
What is stereotyping?
“Over the past twenty-five years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families."
What is ethos?
Mimi Reinhardt, a secretary in a concentration camp, used an unconventional typing method to create this document containing 1,100 names.
What is Schindler's List?