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"Fallacy Detective: The Case of the Twisted Logic"
"Fallacy Detective: The Case of the Twisted Logic"
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"If we let students bring water bottles to class, next they’ll want to bring their entire pantry."
False Analogy
Disinformation
False Dilemma
Post Hoc (False Cause)
2
"The school lunch program is failing because it’s ineffective."
Begging the Question
False Dilemma
Disinformation
Poisoning the Well
3
Studies show that 80% of students dislike the new schedule, but the survey was only conducted with 10 students
False Dilemma
Disinformation
False Analogy
Post Hoc (False Cause)
4
We must either ban all social media at school or accept that students will fail their classes
Poisoning the Well
False Analogy
False Dilemma
Post Hoc (False Cause)
5
"Either you support the new phone policy, or you want the entire school to be distracted all day."
False Dilemma
Poisoning the Well
Begging the Question
Post Hoc (False Cause)
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The new school policy should be rejected because the person who proposed it doesn’t even have kids in the school system
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Poisoning the Well
False Analogy
Begging the Question
Post Hoc (False Cause)
7
"You can’t take Jamie’s opinion on healthy eating seriously; they ate an entire pizza last week."
Poisoning the Well
False Analogy
False Dilemma
Begging the Question
8
The data shows improved test scores, but the data come from the company selling the test prep materials.
Begging the Question
False Dilemma
False Analogy
Disinformation
9
"The new school mascot is causing our team to lose games. We didn’t lose until we changed mascots."
Disinformation
Begging the Question
Post Hoc (False Cause)
Poisoning the Well
10
Every time we have a pep rally, the weather gets worse the next day. Pep rallies must cause bad weather.
Begging the Question
False Analogy
Post Hoc (False Cause)
Poisoning the Well
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Allowing students to listen to music during tests is like letting them have the answer key—it’s cheating.
Post Hoc (False Cause)
False Analogy
Begging the Question
Poisoning the Well
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"This app must be great for studying because it’s labeled as a study tool."
False Dilemma
False Analogy
Post Hoc (False Cause)
Begging the Question
