1) Begging the Question – The rose is the most beautiful flower because it is the prettiest.
2) Ad Hominem – Her volunteer work doesn’t count. Don’t you know that she’s rich?
3) Equivocation – Beauty is perfection. Nancy is beautiful, so she must be perfect.
4) Slippery Slope – Julle has cats. Cat scratches can get infected. Infection can lead to flesh-eating disease. Julle is going to die.
5) Straw Man
Opponent – We want to put more money into funding clean air production because coal is a pollutant energy source and is becoming scarce.
Speaker – You just want to take away coal mining jobs from coal towns and workers.
6) Tu Quoque -Mary’s mom tells her not to curse. But mary’s mom curses to her friends all the time. Mary doesn’t understand why she shouldn’t curse as well.
7) Non-sequitur – The first fast food restaurant I went to gave me food poisoning. All fast food restaurants must give their customers food poisoning.
8) False Dichotomy – The petitioner asked if we read 1 book a month, 3 books a month or 5 books a month.
9) Argument from ignorance -I have never met someone with purple eyes. So people must not have purple eyes.
10) Red Herring -Will Melody be a good class president? Melody is kind, pretty and has great social skills. She is smart and knows a lot of people. She was also class treasurer last year.
11) Appeal to Emotions – These orphaned children are starving, sick and dehydrated. Won’t you donate a dollar a month to help them?
12) Sharpshooter’s Fallacy – melody claimed she was great at baseball. When the pitcher threw the ball at her 10 times, she only hit it twice. Afterward, she said, “I told you I was great at baseball.”
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Veronica Spicer 