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edu | Some of you have objected to the ethics of my clinic's buying those new test batteries. You claim that the new tests are unreliable, have no published norms, have never demonstrated validity, cannot be used by clients who are physically disabled, have been condemned as bogus by every major scientific organization, and were developed and sold by my brother-in-law, who unfortunately cannot be with us today due to a misunderstanding with his overly controlling and rigidly judgmental parole officer. What you have apparently failed to appreciate, however, is that these new tests are much easier to learn, can be administered and scored in a fraction of the time required by the old tests, and were so inexpensive compared to the old tests that I'll be able to give you each a bonus at the end of the month. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | After Sally presents an eloquent and compelling case for a more equitable taxation system, Sam asks the audience whether we should believe anything from a woman who isn't married, was once arrested, and smells a bit weird. | ad hominem |
edu | My family is this school's biggest donor so, you better think about that bad grade you gave me on my test. | appeal to emotion |
edu | More and more people are buying sports utility vehicles. It is time you bought one, too! | ad populum |
edu | Billy - "An apple is a vegetable." Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. " | ad hominem |
edu | employs analogies between things that are not really alike | fallacy of logic |
edu | Which fallacy is used to attack a person's character | ad hominem |
edu | "Since 88% of people polled believe in UFOs, they must exist.” | ad populum |
edu | Bernice: Do you support Black Lives Matter?
Mildred: Of course, I do!
Bernice: Then you should support me looting that store.
Mildred: Wait... what?
| equivocation |
edu | Since Anna Camacho became vice president of the parent-teacher association, student performance has declined and teacher morale is down. We on the school board believe that Camacho bears sole responsibility for the downtrend. | false causality |
edu | Andy states that a Scotsman would never put sugar on his porridge. Dougal replies that he is a Scotsman and he does put sugar on his porridge. Andy counters that no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
Andy thus changes the terms of the argument, implying that Dougal is not a "true" Scotsman in order to support his own position. | intentional |
edu | "I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." Which appeal is the primary appeal used in this quote? | appeal to emotion |
edu | The candidate for mayor was a really bad baseball player in college! Don't vote for him! | ad hominem |
edu | When someone says that what is true of something as a whole must also be true of each of its parts. | faulty generalization |
edu | Jeannette has an upcoming exam in anatomy and physiology. It will cover the four chapters read and discussed over the last month. Jeannette hasn’t studied. Though there are well over 200 terms she will be expected to remember, Jeannette knows that her memory is great. She will remember the terms just from having heard them mentioned in class. After all, because of her excellent memory, she got through high school without studying. Despite her faith in her memory, her lack of studying results in an F on the exam. | appeal to emotion |
edu | Ignore any scientific ideas from anyone who didn’t get a Ph.D. | fallacy of credibility |
edu | Don’t waste your money on a home security system; master thieves will still be able to get into your house. | false dilemma |
edu | If we can send a woman into outerspace and communicate with them while they are there, then surely we can learn to communicate with one another in our state. | fallacy of logic |
edu | We admit that this measure is popular, but we also urge you to recognize that there are so many other bond issues on this ballot it is getting ridiculous. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | "If you buy a computer, you will become smarter." | fallacy of logic |
edu | It is ridiculous to have spent thousands of dollars to rescue those two whales trapped in the Arctic ice. Why look at all the people trapped in jobs they don’t like. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | A persuasive technique used in media messages that appeals to the “everyone is doing it” mentality | ad populum |
edu | Fish are the easiest pets to keep; they are inexpensive and require no maintenance at all. Plus, they are really pretty and soothing to watch. | intentional |
edu | Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.
Bob: So you're saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists. | fallacy of extension |
edu | Fred, do you still cheat on your girlfriend? | intentional |
edu | Kirk drew a picture of a fish and a human and with effusive disdain asked Richard if he really thought we were stupid enough to believe that a fish somehow turned into a human through just, like, random things happening over time. | intentional |
edu | Professor, please, PLEASE reconsider my grade on the Final! I know I only answered 7% of the questions correctly, but I didn’t really deserve an F! In the past week I sprained my ankle, my dog ran away, and my kitchen caught on fire! I think it’s only fair I get a chance to retake the test! | appeal to emotion |
edu | "If you don't buy the warranty for your chromebook, you could find yourself without one for the rest of the schoolyear and having to pay thousands of dollars in expensive repairs" IS an example of this fallacy. | appeal to emotion |
edu | "Who is Sam Brownbeck, and why is he saying all those terrible things about rock lyrics? On Nov. 6, Brownbeck, an ambitious Kansas Republican ... convened a hearing billed as "An Example of Violent Music Lyrics on Youth Behavior and Well Being ..." Brownbeck's subcommittee, which supervises schools and streets in D.C., has much more important work to do, but the senator, who will run again in 1998, is clearly searching for an issue to give him national prominence." | ad hominem |
edu | I believe in God because no one can prove that a god doesn't exist. | intentional |
edu | Student: Logical Fallacies have nothing to do with my life and I don’t want to learn them!
Teacher: You are too young to understand why it’s important!
Estudiante: ¡Las falacias lógicas no tienen nada que ver con mi vida y no quiero aprenderlas!
Maestro: Eres demasiado joven para entender por qué es importanto! | ad hominem |
edu | Person 1: I think pollution from humans contributes to climate change.
Person 2: So, you think humans are directly responsible for extreme weather, like hurricanes, and have caused the droughts in the southwestern U.S.? | fallacy of extension |
edu | I was just on the phone with a Southerner, and I could barely keep up! All Southerners talk fast. | faulty generalization |
edu | According to Freud, your belief in God stems from your need for a strong father figure. So don’t you see that it’s silly to continue believing in God? | ad hominem |
edu | Adultery, as well as philandering, is wrong.
Therefore, we have no biological tendency for multiple sex partners. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | I don't believe in God. One reason is that I think he is evil. And by the way, there is no such thing as "evil;" it is just our evaluation of what we believe is wrong. | fallacy of logic |
edu | "Vote for Smith or live through four more years of higher taxes." | false dilemma |
edu | A little boy says that his friends should not go swimming in a river because his Mama said there were germs in the river. | fallacy of credibility |
edu | People who don't like K-pop are racist. | ad hominem |
edu | "I can't understand how such a low performance student is able to talk about politics" is an example of | ad hominem |
edu | If we don't control Covid-19, it could lead to millions of deaths. Wouldn't it make you sad to live in a country where that had happened? | appeal to emotion |
edu | Medical expenses for the elderly continue to rise. If you don't buy long-term health insurance now, you probably won't be able to qualify once you're older. Sure, the insurance policy is a little expensive, but it's worth spending the money today so you don't go bankrupt in the future, becoming a burden to your family. | appeal to emotion |
edu | Gertrude: I am tired of having to fill out these forms all day. Can't we find a more efficient system?
Cindy-Lou: If you're not happy with the way we do things, we can find someone who is! | ad hominem |
edu | “Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.” | ad hominem |
edu | If indoor smoking laws are passed for bars, the bars will go out of business since people who drink, smoke while they drink. | faulty generalization |
edu | Duke University has the best basketball player in the NCAA, therefore they will win the tournament this year. | faulty generalization |
edu | How do you expect me to support a school voucher program? Soon, all of our inner-city schools will have no money left, our children will give up hope, and the entire education system will collapse. No, there's no way I could support a program that will do all that. | fallacy of extension |
edu | You have a friend who claims that cats like to go to windows and watch sunsets because that is what her cats does. What fallacy has she committed? | faulty generalization |
edu | The Soviet Union collapsed after taking up atheism. Therefore, we must avoid atheism for the same reasons. | false causality |
edu | "Your honor, I believe that we won this case. Look at the opposite camp; they were late for today's hearing!" | fallacy of relevance |
edu | I had this book that proved that leprechauns are real and have been empirically verified by scientists, but I lost it. I forgot the name of it as well -- and who the author was. | equivocation |
edu | "All Muslims are terrorists" is an example of | faulty generalization |
edu | Love America or leave it. | false dilemma |
edu | The reason the firmament, a tent-like structure that kept the “waters above” from flooding the earth as described in the Bible, is no longer there today, is because it was destroyed during Noah’s flood.
| circular reasoning |
edu | The new iPhone comes out this weekend! If you don't get it, you're not cool! | ad populum |
edu | Free speech is good not just for the individual, but for all of society. After all, it's in the interest of the community that everyone should be at liberty to express his or her beliefs. | circular reasoning |
edu | In an example used by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams, a man accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition offered three arguments:
That he had returned the kettle undamaged;
That it was already damaged when he borrowed it;
That he had never borrowed it in the first place.
| fallacy of logic |
edu | A cloud is 90 percent water; a watermelon is 90 percent water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon. | fallacy of logic |
edu | People generally like to walk on the beach. Beaches have sand. Therefore, having sand floors in homes would be a great idea! | fallacy of logic |
edu | “Andrea Dworkin has written several books arguing that pornography harms women. But Dworkin is just ugly and bitter, so why should we listen to her?” | ad hominem |
edu | You said that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins. | ad populum |
edu | When the new administration came on campus, test scores increased and attendance improved. | false causality |
edu | This is an example of | false dilemma |
edu | Doing something because everyone else is doing it | ad populum |
edu | "Annie must like Starbucks because all white girls like Starbucks." | faulty generalization |
edu | "My uncle eats pizza and cake and he is thin. Pizza and cake aren’t the cause of obesity. " is an example of | faulty generalization |
edu | The last Democrat winner of the New Hampshire primary won the general election. This year, the winner of the New Hampshire primary will win the general election. | faulty generalization |
edu | “Everyone else is doing it, so should you”. | ad populum |
edu | I am going to bed or watching TV. I am exhausted, so I will go to bed; therefore, I cannot watch TV. | fallacy of logic |
edu | If you don't start recycling now, our entire planet will be destroyed in ten years. | appeal to emotion |
edu | Since Samantha got that new apron, she hasn't burned any cookies. That new apron sure does help her cooking! | false causality |
edu | The city should not be singling out our company's problems at our chemical storage facilities, when the EPA records indicate the city's very own landfill has been cited as needing improvements. The council needs to clean up its own mess, before they go after us. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | Anthony and Marie have a heated argument. During their fight, Anthony tells Marie that he hates her and wished that she would get hit by a bus. Later that evening, Anthony receives a call from a friend who tells him that Marie is in the hospital because she was struck by a bus. Anthony immediately blames himself and reasons that if he hadn't made that comment during their fight, Marie would not have been hit. What logical fallacy has Anthony committed?
http://www.funtrivia.com | false causality |
edu | Girls should not be allowed . to try out as kickers for school football teams because girls are not very athletic. | faulty generalization |
edu | “Eating five candy bars and drinking two sodas before a test helps me get better grades. I did that and got an A on my last test in history.”
What fallacy is this an example of? | false causality |
edu | "If we don't adopt that puppy today, they might put him down. Do you want to be responsible for that?" Exclaimed Yasir. | appeal to emotion |
edu | Your mom thinks you spend too much time playing video games. You bring up that
she spends too much time shopping. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | Hundreds of thousands of animals are being tortured and killed every year, and for what? So that we can modernize our beauty products and overstock our grocery stores? | appeal to emotion |
edu | One pill is good, two will be better | appeal to emotion |
edu | World-renowned physicist Dr. Patricia Mitchell assures me that exposure to natural sunlight, even exposure resulting in mild sunburn, is still significantly less of a cancer risk than brief exposure to the artificial light in a tanning bed. So I make sure to tell all of my friends that if they’re looking to get a tan this summer they should do it outdoors, and not at the tanning salon! | fallacy of credibility |
edu | "Every time my sister uses hairspray, it is an extremely hot day" is an example of | false causality |
edu | Studies show it takes up to seven years for the human body to digest a piece of gum. | fallacy of credibility |
edu | I sneezed at the same time the power went off. My sneeze did something to make the power go off. | false causality |
edu | I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter an iPhone. Everyone at her new school has one, and I want her to fit in with the other kids. | ad populum |
edu | Each brick in that building weighs less than a pound. Therefore, the building weighs less than a pound.Example #2:
Hydrogen is not wet. Oxygen is not wet. Therefore, water (H2O) is not wet. | faulty generalization |
edu | Pre-AP kids are smart and creative. | faulty generalization |
edu | Layla is a liar! She should not be trusted to be president for student council! | ad hominem |
edu | “Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and perhaps the foremost expert in the field, says that evolution is true. Therefore, I believe it's true.” | fallacy of credibility |
edu | Using a double standard or arguing for an unjustified exception. | intentional |
edu | In the space of a couple of days, Alastair Campbell has managed to turn an argument about the way the government presented its case for war in Iraq into an entirely different dispute about the way the BBC covered what was going on in Whitehall at the time. | fallacy of relevance |
edu | Our country is certainly in terrible shape. Sure, we still have all kinds of freedoms, cultural diversity, emergency rooms and trauma care, agencies like the FDA out to protect us, the entertainment industry, a free market, national parks, we are considered the most powerful nation in the world, have amazing opportunities, and free public education, but still... | faulty generalization |
edu | Charlie: I think we should put more money into schools. Quality public education is so important.
Bob: So you’re saying we should cut military spending and spend it instead on more spiral notebooks and crayons? I guess you want our country to be a weak, defenseless target for terrorists. | fallacy of extension |
edu | "Every 0.008 seconds in the United States, a teen accidentally shatters his/her phone screen. You can help put an end to these devastating tragedies: donate now to my Kickstarter fund, the new Bubble-wrap Phone Case X." | appeal to emotion |
edu | Compares minor problems with much more serious crimes | fallacy of relevance |
edu | Fred, the Australian, stole my wallet. Thus, all Australians are thieves. | faulty generalization |
edu | The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. | circular reasoning |
edu | I ask all employees to vote for my chosen candidate in the upcoming elections. If the other candidate wins, he will raise taxes and many of you will lose your jobs. | appeal to emotion |
edu | We haven’t proven aliens didn’t create life on earth, so aliens created life on earth. | intentional |
edu | I believe that when we die, we will spend eternity reading books and learning more about writing composition. I am so comforted by this belief! | appeal to emotion |
edu | I met a rude person from France yesterday. I guess all French people are rude. | faulty generalization |
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