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Examples Of Fallacies Used In Fallacious Arguments - Example Papers

Examples Of Fallacies Used In Fallacious Arguments

Fallacious Arguments

Fallacies used

We can recognize that athletes that participate in sports must be given special consideration within our grading system, or we can let the university sink into athletic oblivion.

FALLACY: Slippery Slope. Assumes that if one bad thing happens, things will spiral into the worse case scenario.

I don't know what colleges are teaching these days! I have just received a letter of application from a young man who graduated from the state university last June. It was a wretched letter--badly written, with elementary errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The state university does not deserve the tax support that it is getting.

FALLACY: ...

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the young, not just their bodies. The school board is to be applauded for their prompt action in wiping out this moral disease.

FALLACY: False Analogy-makes a specious logical connection between sexually explicit printed material and a communicable disease that is transmitted by respiratory factors.

Despite endless efforts, no one has been able to prove that God exists; we may just as well stop trying and accept the truth: there is no God.

FALLACY: Contrary-to-fact hypothesis.

Just because you can't prove something is the truth, doesn't mean that the converse is true.

Alicia started gaining more weight than ever when she started taking Slimdown; the stuff must be fattening!

FALLACY: Post hoc ergo propter hoc. This is an argument from a false, first cause. Alicia may have started taking Slimdown because she was worried about her new job in a chocolate cake factory and been unable, despite taking the Slimdown, to resist the product!

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