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Academy Fallacy
Examples and Definitions of Fallacies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If someone asks to open Christmas gifts at midnight, and their parents say to wait till morning because that's the way it's always been. | Appeal to Tradition |
| Videos that try to convince you to notice by showing the kids in Africa | Appeal to emotion |
| Give me your lunch money, or I'll beat you up | Appeal to force |
| Nobody can prove that I ate the chips, therefore I didn't eat the chips | Appeal to ignorance |
| Mr. Morgan trying to teach us Mandarin | Appeal to Unqualified Authority |
| All the best athletes wears Nike, so Nike is the best brand | Appeal to Snobbery |
| Mr. Morgan saying English is the best subject | Appeal to Bias Authority |
| P. Diddy saying it's wrong to steal, but we say he's wrong because he's a criminal | Personal attack |
| He's from GBS, how can he be right? | A group fallacy/group affiliation |
| All Asians eat their food with chopsticks | Hasty Generalization |
| All people put cereal before the milk | Bandwagon |
| There is a boss that realizes 20% of off days are taken on Mondays and 20% are taken on Fridays. He gets mad and says 40% of of people are taking off Mondays and Fridays | Misleading statistic |
| Don't listen to rap music, it will lead to drugs and violence, | False cause |
| Are video games good for children? Someone says, "They're really fun!" | Irrelevant conclusion |
| Your parents are yelling at you for bad grades, but then you tell them about your sibling's worse grades. | Red herring |
| You either show up to practice or you're off the team | Either or fallacy |
| Scientists don't actually contribute to society, they just leech off of our tax dollars | Straw man |
| Scientists don't actually contribute to society, they just leech off of our tax dollars | Straw man |
| If you get an electric scooter, you’re going to get hit by a car. | Slippery Slope |
| Education is like cake, it’s good at first and it gets unhealthy. | Faulty analogy |
| Last year Apple made 16 billion, so every employee must be a millionaire. | Fallacy of division |
| Daniel Quinn ignored the examples that disputed his claims in Ishmael | Stacking the Deck |
| If Bill Gates had died at 10, we would be 50 years behind in technology. | Speculation Fallacy |
| Kavi have you stopped taking drugs? | Loaded Question |
| Could an all powerful god make a burrito so big that he couldn’t even finish it? | Contradictory premise |
| To solve world hunger, just produce more food | Over simplification |
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