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____________________ fallacy occurs when someone changes their opponent’s argument, and then refutes this “new” version of the argument.
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false analogy fallacy
straw man fallacy
red herring fallacy
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____________________ fallacy occurs when irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting attention from that relevant information.
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red herring
straw man fallacy
false analogy fallacy
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____________________ fallacy occurs when someone changes their opponent’s argument, and then refutes this “new” version of the argument.
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____________________ fallacy occurs when irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting attention from that relevant information.
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____________________ fallacy occurs when a person says that two things are alike in multiple ways just because they are alike in one way.
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Ms. Mohammed asked her student Dee-Anna why she did not finish her assignment in class yesterday. Instead of responding to what Ms. Mohammed asked, Dee-Anna said that Ms. Mohammed gives too much homework.
What type of logical fallacy is this?
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Which sentence helped you identify the fallacy?
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30 sec
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“Frogs and fish are basically the same animal because they both hatch in water.”
What type of fallacy is this?
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What is true about the following fallacy?
“Frogs and fish are basically the same animal because they both hatch in water.”
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In a slippery slope fallacy, a person makes a claim that one event leads to another event and so on until we come to an unrealistic or undesirable ____________________.
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Along the way, each step or premise in the faulty logic becomes more and more _____________________.
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Which of the following is a slippery slope fallacy?
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A state government is debating whether or not they should lower the voting age. One person says that if they lower the voting age to 17, then 16 year olds would start insisting on the right to vote! Before long, babies will be voting!
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Violent video games cause teens to be violent, because violent teens play violent video games.
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An argument that comes back to its beginning without having proven anything.
