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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"He was accused of sexual harassment-and you know, where there's smoke, there's fire-he must have done something."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Give two examples of fallacies you've heard, read, or said yourself.

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"I'll never learn an instrument-I tried guitar for 2 months and couldn't play a tune."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"The grease will help your hair grow. It helped mine to grow."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -Don't send my husband to jail, he is the breadwinner and this will leave us destitute.


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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The fallacy of_____is one in which only two alternatives are presented as possibilities.


A) Two wrongs make a right
B) False dilemma
C) Begging the question
D) Polarized situation
E) Logos

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"Mom, I am not running around the house. I'm practicing for my track meet."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"Why should we buy a cell phone?" "Because everyone else has one."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"Since I'm going to be a billionaire, you should think about marrying me."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"She broke up with me because she found a guy with more money."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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The ad populum fallacy consists of a false appeal to.


A) The authority of everyone
B) A specific group
C) A segregated group
D) The upper class
E) The middle class

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The slippery slope fallacy is also known as the domino effect.

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"If James doesn't come to my candidate's party, then no one will show up and then I'll have wasted all this money and my candidate will lose."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -The sign said "fine for parking here" and since it was fine, I parked there. (from Stephen's Guide to Fallacies)


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"If we let them put new warning labels on video games, pretty soon they'll be censoring books and then we'll have a fascist society."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"That's not fair! All of the other kids are going as Punk Aliens for Halloween."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"Of course you're going to be a lawyer. Your mother is a lawyer."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"Mr. President, I don't want to talk about how I messed up the press conference. What I want to discuss is the fact that you're always criticizing me."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"We have to give the Andersons a present." "Why?" "Because we do it every year."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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Matching For the following, match the correct fallacy to the statement. -"I'm having bad luck today because I broke a mirror yesterday."


A) Ad Hominem
B) Slippery Slope
C) Faulty Analogy
D) False Dilemma, Either/Or
E) Begging the Question
F) Appeal to pity.
G) Equivocation
H) Ad Populum
I) Post Hoc-False Cause
J) Red Herring
K) Appeal to Tradition
L) Hasty Conclusion
M) Two Wrongs Make a Right
N) Straw Man

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