Logical Fallacies
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Logical Fallacies
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1. This is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence. In other words - you are rushing to a conclusion before you have all the relevant facts.

2. This involves drawing an analogy that is based upon faulty equations or identifications of terms. The writer makes a comparisons between two objects which is either inaccurate or inconsequential.

3. Everyone else is displaying a flag - or a support our troops sticker on their car - therefore - you should too.

4. Relying on manipulatively heart-warming or heart-wrenching appeals to emotion to win support for what has not been otherwise rationally justified.

5. The administration closed the smoking court in our school at the end of the last year - and fights among students have gone down his year; therefore - closing the smoking court caused the reaction in fights among students.

6. She is feminist; she must hate men.

7. Either you support the president in everything he says and does or you are not a patriotic American

8. If we can Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars - so we should not ban hummers.

9. Students in kindergarten at Jefferson Elementary school did better when given milk and cookies than when not; therefore students at UWEC will do better too if they are given milk and cookies in class.

10. I drank bottled water and now I am sick - so the water must have made me sick.

11. In this case the writer forms an argument which leaves out a necessary portion in a logical sequence - seeming to suggest a logical connection when in fact one does not exist.

12. The conclusion that the writer should prove is validated within the claim. The author assumes as true they very claim that is disputed - in a circular argument.

13. It has been scientifically proven that people need to drink a certain amount of water every day to keep healthy. Water is liquid and so is beer. Therefore people should be able to substitute beer for water - drinking beer each day as doctors recommen

14. This sort of argument relies on the faulty assumption that because one event follows another - the second necessarily causes the first

15. In listening to what you have to say I have this to say in reply: only an idiot would argue for pursuing a peaceful solution to this conflict.

16. Person: A we should liberalize the laws one beer B: No any society with unrestricted access to intoxicants loses its work ethic and goes only for immediate gratification.

17. Because of the possibility of a terrorist hijacking or mechanical failure - flying on a plane is too dangerous and should be avoided altogether.

18. Because of the possibility of poisoning of Halloween candy by some people who give it out to trick or treaters - communities should ban trick-or-treating.

19. A black family move into my neighborhood once - and they were financially quite well-off - better than we were; this proves that black people actually are economically equal to whites.

20. This argumentative fallacy in which the rhetor frames an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers.

21. That celebrity is suffering a lot of pain and aguish after breaking p with his girlfriend and coming through drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment; he is a role model for all of us - and needs us to support him by his albums and going to his movi

22. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.

23. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than her/his opinions or arguments.

24. If you restrict my right to say whatever I want however I want this is the beginning of totalitarianism in America.

25. The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe - but what will fishers do to support their families?

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