Logical Fallacies

Question 1

Red Herring

Answer 1

Switching issues mid argument in order to throw the audience off your scent

Question 2

False Dilemma

Answer 2

Acting like you only have two choices when there are multiple

Question 3

Begging the Question

Answer 3

Assumes a debatable point has already been proven

Question 4

Straw Person

Answer 4

Distorts an opponents argument and attacks that distortion

Question 5

Slippery Slope

Answer 5

One Event Causes a whole chain of events

Question 6

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Oc

Answer 6

What happens before is the cause of what happens after

Question 7

Ad Populam

Answer 7

Appeal to Popularity

Question 8

Ad Hominem

Answer 8

Personal Attack in Argument

Question 9

Appeal to Ignorance

Answer 9

What we cannot prove cannot exist. We cannot disprove it so it must exist

Question 10

False Analogy

Answer 10

Making an Analogy that is to broad. All Weed smokers are thugs

Question 11

Antecedent Fallacy

Answer 11

Past is sufficient to predict the future

Question 12

Guilt by Association

Answer 12

Feelings towards a certain person because of a relationship to a certain entity

Question 13

Non Sequitur

Answer 13

Does not follow reaches a conclusion that does not follow evidence

Question 14

Hasty Generalization

Answer 14

Don’t have enough evidence to make a generalization

Question 15

Complex Cause

Answer 15

Acting like there is only one cause to a problem when in reality there are many.

Question 16

Poisoning the Well

Answer 16

Unqualified to talk about a certain topic because of a particular circumstance

Question 17

Tu Quoque

Answer 17

Falsely conclude someone guilty of an offense has no reason to tell other people not to do it. Thief telling other people not to steal.