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Copy of Copy of Logical Fallacies Quiz (4/22/2024) (4/22/2024)

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28 questions
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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:

From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 9

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 11

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 13

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 15 (illustration based on an exchange between Alice and the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass)

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 21

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 23

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 37

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 38

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Identify this example as which logical fallacy:


From The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 43

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Consider this example as which logical fallacy from The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, p. 41:


Translated from the Latin, "Ad Hominem" is a logical fallacy that...

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"The school is in bad shape. Either we tear it down and put up a new building, or we continue to risk students’ safety. Obviously, we shouldn’t risk anyone’s safety, so we must tear the building down.”

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"The president raised taxes, and then the rate of violent crime went up. The president is responsible for the rise in crime."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"A group of teenagers vandalized the park downtown. Teenagers are irresponsible and destructive."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"If you don’t stop vaping, then you'll start smoking cigarettes, then you'll start doing drugs, then you'll become an addict."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"I forgot to go grocery shopping for you, but I did buy you a dozen roses because I love you."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"President Kennedy was an excellent speech giver because he delivered exceptional speeches."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are arguing about cleaning out their basement.
Mr. Smith: “Why, we just did it last year. “Do we have to clean it out every day?”
Mrs Smith: “You just want to keep everything around forever, and that’s ridiculous.”

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"Candidate A will not maintain his electoral promises: he cheated on his wife!"

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"I support the war, because every patriotic citizen does."

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

In a commercial for GoodYear Tires, a picture of a baby is shown with the words, "because so much is riding on your tires"

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Identify the following logical fallacy in this argument:

"In this war, there are no sides. Either you're with us, or you're against us"

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Some logical fallacies are illogical because they illogically appeal to their audience.

Which of the following rhetorical strategies are APPEALS to their audience?

(hint: 6 right answers)

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Some logical fallacies are illogical because they illogically appeal to their audience.

Which of the following logical fallacies are illogical rhetorical APPEALS to their audience?

(hint: which of the following are ways the arguer tries to illogically manipulate the audience to make the illogical leap, not the argument itself)

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This comic is an example of which logical fallacy?

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This comic is an example of which logical fallacy?

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This comic is an example of which logical fallacy?

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This comic is an example of which logical fallacy?

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This comic is an example of which logical fallacy?