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.
