Logical Fallacies/ Appeals

Question 0

Accident (sweeping generalization)

Answer 0

Misapplying a principle inappropriately

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

Hype the positive and ignore the negative

Question 2

Ad Baculum

Answer 2

Appeal to force/power

“If you don’t agree, you don’t matter”

Question 3

Ad hominem

Answer 3

Attacking the person

Question 4

Ad ignorantiam

Answer 4

An appeal to ignorance to prove something

“No one I know…”

Question 5

Ad populum

Answer 5

Appealing to the alleged popularity of an idea as proof that it is right

Question 6

Ad vericundiam

Answer 6

Appealing to an Irrelevant or indemnified authority

Question 7

Affirming the consequent

Answer 7

If A, then B; therefore A

“ if I’m I’m Killeen, I’m in Texas; I’m in Texas therefore I’m in Killeen

Question 8

Bandwagon

Answer 8

Copycat behavior (go with the crowd)

Question 9

Begging the question

Answer 9

Trying to presume you’ve answered a question without answering it

Question 10

Complex question

Answer 10

Try to take a complex issue and present it as simple

“The only reason…”

Question 11

Composition

Answer 11

Traits of part of something represent all of it

Question 12

Denying the antecedent

Answer 12

If A then B, therefore A is not B

Question 13

Equivocation

Answer 13

Using 2 or more possible meanings if a word to mislead

Question 14

False dilemma

Answer 14

If you care about this, you won’t do that

Question 15

Hast generalization

Answer 15

Because some feel this way, all must feel this way

Question 16

Post Hoc ergo propter hoc

Answer 16

False cause and effect

Question 17

Red herring

Answer 17

Throwing a false irrelevant argument into your argument

Question 18

Slippery slope

Answer 18

If we do this, something terrible, awful will happen

Question 19

Straw man

Answer 19

Attributing false beliefs to your opponent to make it easy to defeat them