Fallacies

Tara Link

English 1010

Haley Stokes

1/21/10

Fallacies

1. Begging the Question: All teachers are smart, because no stupid person could become a teacher.

2. Either-or: Either you get your grades up in school or else you will never graduate.

3. False analogies: I cheated on one test and didn’t get caught, and got a good grade. I should cheat on all my tests.

4. Hasty generalization: I have been underweight for 7 years; thats a sure sign of malnutrition

5. Non sequitur: A rich man that can raise a bunch of money for the homeless should not have to do it at all.

6. Oversimplification: No one would steal if we had a mandatory death penalty for doing it.

7. Post hoc fallacy: The pregnant women get depression after birth therefore the baby suffers.

8. Rationalization: I could have been on time this morning if my alarm wouldn’t have broke

9. Slippery slope: We shouldn’t let students have off campus lunches because they will get into trouble.

10. Bandwagon appeals: It doesn’t matter if I cheat, everyone else is doing it.

11. Name calling: Like calling a marine a “jar head”

12. Polarization: All LDS people are against gay rights.

13. Straw man: Vegetarians won’t be satisfied until not a single human being is allowed to eat meat.