1. What is the point of
fallacies?
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2. AD Hominem
My opponent suggests that lowering taxes will be a good idea -- this is
coming from a woman who eats a pint of Ben and Jerry’s each night!
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4. • Easy way to remember is
That is really just name calling.
5. Argument from Authority
• The Pope told me that priests can turn bread and wine into Jesus’
body and blood. The Pope is not a liar. Therefore, priests really can
do this.
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7. Appeal to Ignorance
• Although we have proven that the moon is not made of spare ribs, we
have not proven that its core cannot be filled with them; therefore,
the moon’s core is filled with spare ribs.
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9. Begging the question
• The reason everyone wants the new "Slap Me Silly Elmo" doll is
because this is the hottest toy of the season!
11. Hasty generalization
• My father smoked four packs of cigarettes a day since age fourteen
and lived until age sixty-nine. Therefore, smoking really can’t be that
bad for you.
17. Slippery Slope
• We cannot unlock our child from the closet because if we do, she will
want to roam the house. If we let her roam the house, she will want
to roam the neighborhood. If she roams the neighborhood, she will
get picked up by a stranger in a van, who will sell her in a sex slavery
ring in some other country. Therefore, we should keep her locked up
in the closet.
20. Faulty Causality
• Antiperspirants cause breast cancer. As we all know, rates of breast
cancer have increased at the same time that the use of
antiperspirants has increased. Antiperspirants block sweat from
naturally being released from the body. This blocked sweat therefore
builds up in these tissues, leading to cancer in the lymph glands and
the breast.
22. Straw man
• Ted: Biological evolution is both a theory and a fact.
• Edwin: That is ridiculous! How can you possibly be absolutely certain
that we evolved from pond scum!
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24. Sentimental appeals
• The new PowerTangerine computer gives you the power you need. If
you buy one, people will envy your power. They will look up to you
and wish they were just like you. You will know the true joy of power.
26. Red Herring
• Mike: It is morally wrong to cheat on your spouse, why on earth would
you have done that?
• Ken: But what is morality exactly?
• Mike: It’s a code of conduct shared by cultures.
• Ken: But who creates this code?...
30. Bandwagon
• A 2005 Gallup Poll found that an estimated 25% of Americans over
the age of 18 believe in astrology—or that the position of the stars
and planets can affect people's lives. That is roughly 75,000,000
people. Therefore, there must be some truth to astrology!
35. Equivocation
• I want to have myself a merry little Christmas, but I refuse to do as the
song suggests and make the yuletide gay. I don't think sexual
preference should have anything to do with enjoying the holiday.
• Really exciting novels are very rare. And since rare books are
expensive, I can’t afford to buy any really exciting novels.
38. Faulty Analogy
• Not believing in the literal resurrection of Jesus because the Bible has
errors and contradictions, is like denying that the Titanic sank because
eye-witnesses did not agree if the ship broke in half before or after it
sank.