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Straw Man Fallacy Slippery Slope Fallacy

Logical Fallacies Ad Hominem Fallacy
False Dilemma Fallacy Bandwagon Fallacy
Hasty Generalization Fallacy Guilt by Association Fallacy
Appeal to Fear Fallacy
Ad Hominem Fallacy 1. Attacking someone’s character, not the claim.

Hasty Generalization Fallacy2. It is basically making a claim based on
evidence that it just too small.
Guilt by Association Fallacy 3. Occurs when someone connects an
opponent
to a demonized group of people or to a bad person
in order to discredit his or her argument.
Bandwagon Fallacy 4. sometimes called the appeal to common belief
or appeal to the masses.
False Dilemma Fallacy 5. Sometimes called the “either-or” fallacy, a
false dilemma is a logical fallacy that presents only
two options or sides when there are many options or
sides.
Logical Fallacies 6. Errors in reasoning that are based on poor or
faulty logic.
Ad Hominem Fallacy 7. means “against the man”
Straw Man Fallacy 8. occurs when someone takes another person’s
argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in
some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme
distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is
making.
Slippery Slope Fallacy 9. Occurs when someone makes a claim about a
series of events that would lead to one major event,
usually a bad event.
Appeal to Fear Fallacy 10. This fallacy presents a scary future if a
certain decision is made.
Straw Man Fallacy Slippery Slope Fallacy
Ad Hominem Fallacy Appeal to Fear Fallacy
False Dilemma Fallacy Bandwagon Fallacy
Hasty Generalization Fallacy Guilt by Association Fallacy
1. Ad Hominem Fallacy -How can we accept Jill’s argument in favor of

abortion rights when she herself has had three of them?
2. Straw Man Fallacy-Parent: Your curfew is at 10 pm tonight.
Teenager: But the party doesn't even start until 9:00.
Parent: It's a school night, so you need to be home by 10:00.
Teenager: You just want me to be unpopular! You don't care
about my happiness!
3. Straw Man Fallacy-Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit
messy." Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to
clean them out every day?"
4. Slippery Slope Fallacy -We have to stop the tuition increase! The next thing you
know, they'll be charging P100,000 a semester!"
5. False Dilemma Fallacy -"Look, you are going to have to make up your mind.
Either you decide that you agree to abide by the laws in this country or move
somewhere else."
6. Hasty Generalization Fallacy -The Irish should not be allowed to vote because
they are all drunks.
7. Straw Man Fallacy -Senator: I will vote to increase the defense budget.
Public: Why don't you care about education?
8. Guilt by Association Fallacy- Shan is a member of the Dog Lovers Club, and last
year one of their members was suspended for abusing a cat. Rex must want to
hurt cats.
9. Bandwagon Fallacy Most people don't believe that women should be allowed to
vote, therefore it must be the right decision.
10. Appeal to Fear Fallacy A mother tells her children not to leave the yard because
there could be wild animals in the woods.
11. Guilt by Association Fallacy Christa is thinking about becoming a vegetarian.
Then she learns that many mass murderers were also vegetarians. So, she keeps
eating meat.
12.Slippery Slope Fallacy first, they’ll allow residents to keep chickens in their
yards, then they’ll start allowing people to keep pigs and sheep. Soon, this entire
neighborhood will be one giant livestock farm.
13. Ad Hominem Fallacy “You’re wrong because recent data show that the issue is
multifaceted and thus cannot be solved through a simple budget increase. You’re
dumb for using simplistic thinking.”
14. False Dilemma Fallacy If we want to make campus safer, we can either install
more security cameras or ban visitors.
15. Hasty Generalization Fallacy Her diet consisted only of burgers, and she lived
to be a 102. That means burgers must be the healthiest food on the planet.

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Straw Man Fallacy Slippery Slope Fallacy

Ad Hominem Fallacy 1. Attacking someone’s character, not the claim.

1. Ad Hominem Fallacy -How can we accept Jill’s argument in favor of

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