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1 Argument Fallacies What’s wrong with your argument?

2 Fallacy of Anecdote An Anecdote is a story Some arguments are built by using one story as an example Does one example prove an argument? Does making one great catch mean A player is great?

3 Fallacy of Accident When an exception that disproves an argument should be ignored It is a crime to cut people Surgeons cut people Surgeons are criminals You Can See How This Doesn’t Add Up

4 Cherry Picking Fallacy or Card Stacking Fallacy When an argument only presents the information that supports the claim and ignores the information that refutes the claim Alberto walks into a town and the first ten people he sees are men He then assumes that there are only men in the town and no women

5 Appeal to Fear Fallacy When an argument is made to scare or worry the audience into believing it “You are either with us or you are with the terrorists”

6 Slippery Slope Fallacy Arguing that taking a small step will inevitably lead to many more steps in the same direction.

7 After This, Therefore Because of This Fallacy I drank water, then I got sick. Therefore The water made me sick I brought a map and then I got lost. Therefore I got lost because I brought a map

8 Circular Argument Fallacy This restates the argument instead of actually proving it. George Bush is a great communicator because he speaks effectively These mean the same thing Nothing has been proved


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