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fallacy
FACE-OFF
the game of quick, critical thinking where logic
rules and fallacy flounders
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Joanna Hayes should write a book about the
  central Intelligence Agency. She has starred in
  three films that show the inner workings of the
  agency.

FALSE AUTHORITY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• It is ridiculous to have spent thousands of
  dollars to rescue those two whales trapped in the
  Arctic ice. Why look at all the people trapped in
  jobs they dont like.

RED HERRING
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Every time my roommate has a math test, she
  becomes extremely nervous. Clearly she isnt good
  at math.

IRRELEVANT ARGUMENT
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Any intelligent person would understand that war
  is necessary to preserve peace in the middle east.

PREDJUDICIAL LANGUAGE
BONUS CHANCE
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What else is illogical here?

• Any intelligent person would understand that war
  is necessary to preserve peace in the middle east.

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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Plagiarism is deceitful because it is dishonest.

BEGGING THE QUESTION
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• The local political coalition to protect the
  environment would get my support if its leaders
  did not drive cars that are such gas hogs.

ARGUMENT TO THE PERSON
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Water fluoridation affects the brain. Citywide,
  students test scores began to drop five months
  after fluoridation began.

FALSE CAUSE
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Whats Illogical Here?
VIDEO FALLACY
TALKING HEADS
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Reading good literature is the one way to
  appreciate culture.

EITHER-OR FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Your grade is your grade because I said so and
  thats the end of the discussion.

BARE ASSERTION
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• I know three redheads who have terrible tempers,
  and since Annabel has red hair, Ill bet she has
  a terrible temper too.

HASTY GENERALIZATION
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Supreme Court Justice Byron White was an
  All-American football player while in college, so
  how can you say that athletes are dumb?

HASTY GENERALIZATION
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Whats Illogical Here?
PHOTO FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• If Cher uses Equal, it must taste better than
  Sweet n Low.

FALSE AUTHORITY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Why should we put people on trial when we know
  they are guilty?

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Whats Illogical Here?
TOON FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Since good nutrition is essential to the health
  of its citizens, the government should punish
  people who eat junk food.

IRRELEVANT ARGUMENT
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Children who watch Frasier rather than Friends
  receive higher grades in school. So it must be
  true that Frasier is more educational than
  Friends.

FALSE CAUSE
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• You support capital punishment just because you
  want an eye for an eye, but I have several good
  reasons to believe that capital punishment is
  fundamentally wrong

STRAW MAN
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• The meteorologist predicted the wrong amount of
  rain for May. Obviously the meteorologist is
  unreliable.

HASTY GENERALIZATION
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Whats Illogical Here?
PHOTO FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Trust me. You should eat plenty of soy products
  they are good for you.

BARE ASSERTION
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Hes a columnist for the campus newspaper, so he
  must be a pretty good writer.

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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Studies show that drinking coffee is actually
  good for you because it contains antioxidants.

ANONYMOUS AUTHORITY
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Whats Illogical Here?
AUDIO FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• We should encourage a return to arranged
  marriages in this country since marriages based
  on romantic love havent been very successful.

EITHER-OR FALLACY
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• You know Jane Fondas exercise videos must be
  worth the money. Look at the great shape shes in.

FALSE CAUSE
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Physical education should be required because
  physical activity is healthful.

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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• To those people who constantly say youve got to
  listen to those younger people, they have got to
  say something, I just dont buy that at all. They
  smoke more pot than we do and if the younger
  generation are the hundred thousand kids that lay
  around a field up in Woodstock, New York, I am
  not going to trust the destiny of the country to
  that group.

ARGUMENT TO THE PERSON
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• That candidate was poor as a child, so he will
  certainly be sympathetic to the poor if he is
  elected.

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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Governor Jones was elected two years ago. Since
  that time constant examples of corruption and
  subversion have been unearthed. It is time to get
  rid of the man responsible for this kind of
  corrupt government.

FALSE CAUSE
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• Are we going to vote a pay increase for our
  teachers, or are we going to allow our schools to
  deteriorate into substandard custodial
  institutions?

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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• You see, the priests were right. After we threw
  the virgins into the volcano, it quit erupting.

FALSE CAUSE
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Can You Name this Fallacy?

• People who are pro-choice just dont think that a
  fetus is a real life I can easily prove them
  wrong.

STRAW MAN
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GAME OVER