Logical Fallacies
What is the definition for a fallacy?
What is an error?
These arguments attempt to sway the opinions of people by influencing them to feel emotions such as pity, fear, joy, peer pressure, and intimidation.
What are appeals to emotion?
These arguments introduce something that is irrelevant that distracts from the issue at hand.
What is a red herring?
What fallacy presents only two options when more actually exist?
What is the false dilemma?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"Either you study every night, or you will fail all your classes."
What is the false dilemma?
What is a logical fallacy?
What is an error in reasoning
This argument distracts by making the audience afraid of the consequences of disagreeing with the speaker.
What is the appeal to fear?
Which logical fallacy claims that one small step will lead to a chain of extreme and unlikely consequences without enough evidence?
What is the slippery slope?
What fallacy is an argument that assumes the correct answer is ALWAYS the middle ground between two extremes?
What is the fallacy of moderation?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"Either you study every night, or you will fail all your classes."
What is the appeal to fear?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"The book is heavy, so each page must be heavy. "
What is the fallacy of division?
An argument that distracts by making the audience feel sorry for the speaker or the subject of the argument
What is the appeal to pity?
Which logical fallacy is an argument that attempts to misrepresents (twists or oversimplifies) another person’s argument to make it easier to attack?
What is a straw man fallacy?
What fallacy is argues that what is true of the parts must also be true of the whole?
What is the fallacy of composition?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"Everyone is using this app, so it must be the best one."
What is the ad populum?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"Every ingredient in the soup is tasty, so the soup must be delicious."
What is the fallacy of composition?
This argument distracts by making the audience want to be a part of the crowd.
What is the ad populum?
What is the logical fallacy that a belief is true simply on the grounds that it has not been shown to be false.
What is the appeal to ignorance?
What fallacy argues that what is true of the whole, must be true of the parts?
What is the fallacy of division?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"If you skip one workout, you’ll stop exercising completely and become unhealthy."
What is the slippery slope?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"People who want healthier lunches are saying students can never eat junk food again."
What is the straw man?
Is the following statement appeal to fear, appeal to pity, or ad populum?
"Buy this alarm system or your house could be broken into."
What is the appeal to fear?
Is the following statement a straw man, slippery slope, or appeal to ignorance?
"You can’t prove that I cheated, so I didn’t cheat."
What is the appeal to ignorance?
Is the following statement a fallacy of division or fallacy of composition?
"The cake is delicious, so each ingredient must be delicious."
What is the fallacy of division?
Which fallacy is the following argument?
"One critic says the performance was brilliant, another says it was awful, so it must have been decent."
What is the fallacy of moderation?