7 Fallacies

Question 1

Ann believes her horoscope is always right. If it predicts something correctly, she remembers. When wrong, she ignores.

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Confirmation Bias

Question 2

“The school should give us free pizza every day. Why? Because students deserve free pizza!”

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Circular Reasoning

Question 3

“If we admit the pyramids weren’t just tombs, then we have to believe time travelers built everything in history!”

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Slippery Slope

Question 4

“I didn’t eat breakfast this morning, and now it’s raining. I guess skipping breakfast causes bad weather.”

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Non-Sequitur

Question 5

Pyramids have 80 ton blocks moved with no modern tech. I can’t imagine how ancients did this, so it must be aliens.

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Appeal to Ignorance

Question 6

“If we let students chew gum, next they’ll be eating full meals in class!”

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Slippery Slope

Question 7

Alex: “I think we should have fewer homework assignments.”Jordan: “Oh, so you just want to cancel school entirely?”

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Straw Man

Question 8

“There’s no way you got a perfect score on the math test. I barely passed, and I studied! You must have cheated.”

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Argument from Incredulity

Question 9

“The pyramids contain materials that conduct electricity, so they must have been used to generate power."

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Non-Sequitur

Question 10

“Hieroglyphs resemble spaceships: the Egyptians met aliens. I’ll ignore any hieroglyphs that show regular human life"

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Confirmation Bias

Question 11

Claim: Historians say Egyptians built the pyramids.Bad Argument: "Oh, so you think ancient people had superpowers?"

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Straw man

Question 12

No one knows how ancient Egyptians cut granite. That means a lost civilization had high-tech tools we don’t know about.

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Appeal to ignorance

Question 13

Pyramids were powerplants containing conductive materials; we know they were power plants as they have these materials"

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Circular Reasoning

Question 14

“No one has ever proven that ghosts aren’t real. That means they must exist!”

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Appeal to Ignorance

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