15 Fallicies

Ad Hominem

• Person A: "We need to fix our city's public transit system because the buses are old and run late."

• Person B: "You only say that because you don't own a car and failed your driver's test twice."

Appeal to Authority

“My favorite actor, who starred in that movie about a virus that turns people into zombies, said in an interview that genetically modified crops caused COVID-19. So I think that’s what really happened.”

Appeal to Emotion

“Can I have the last piece of cake? You know how much I love it, and it’s been a tough day for me. I’ve had such a bad day, and this cake would just make me feel so much better. You don’t want me to be sad, right?”

Appeal to fear

" If you do that, I will never be your friend again " or showing people who smoke a picture of gross lungs

Bandwagon

Everyone else is wearing that brand, so you should too! or we don’t belive 1+1 =2 so then that person that did no longer does

Begging the Question

The cats name is bob and he is a domestic cat, therefore he is a domestic cat

False Dilemma

Your either for the president or you are against the president

Genetic Fallacy

"Nick is white so he must be rasist"

Hasty Generalization

"We lost the football game ; therefore we are a terrible football team"

Post Hoc( Ergo Propter Hoc)

I wore my favorite shirt and my team lost because I wore that shirt

Red Herring

"certainly women should be paid equal to men for the same work. But women are not as phisically capable of doing some jobs"

Slippery Slope

"If we allow employees to work from home one day a week, nobody will ever come to the office again and the company will fail." or

Person A: “I think we should lower the legal drinking age.”

Person B: “No, if we do that, we’ll have ten-year-olds getting drunk in bars!”

Straw Man

• "We should spend a little less money on the military."

• "You want to leave our entire country completely defenseless."

Loaded Question

Have you stopped cheating on your exams