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Logical Fallacies
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1. This is a conclusion based on the premise that if A happens - then eventually through a series of small steps - through B -C -...X -Y -Z will happen - too basically equating A and Z.

2. This argument gives a lie an honest appearance - by insisting on What is only partially or formally true.

3. She is feminist; she must hate men.

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

5. 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

6. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.

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

8. This is a diversionary tactic that avoid key issues - often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them.

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

10. I did not have sex with that woman(if by sex you mean penile-vaginal intercourse). (from bill clinton in relation of the nature of his relationship with monica lewinsky)

11. Everyone else is going out and getting drunk tonight - so you should too.

12. This logical fallacy proposes that there are simply cannot be another possible way of making sense of and engaging with an issue but the one you represent.

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

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

15. We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth.

16. The writer suggest that readers should listen and follow what someone has to say about something that he or she is in fact not a credible - reliable authority on.

17. 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.

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. 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.

20. Either you worship God or you worship Satan.

21. 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.

22. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it only to two sides or choices.

23. 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.

24. Britney Spears says that George W. Bush has got a great plan for the economy - and so therefore I am supporting him because I trust what she has to say.

25. 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.

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