| A | B |
|---|
| Slippery Slope | If we ban automatic weapons because they are bad eventually the government will ban all guns, so we should not ban automatic weapons. |
| Hasty Generalization | Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring course. |
| Post hoc ergo propter hoc | I drank bottled water and now I am sick, so the water must have made me sick. |
| Genetic Fallacy | The Volkswagen Beetle is an evil car because it was originally designed by Hitler's army. |
| Begging the Claim | "I think he is unattractive because he is ugly." |
| Circular Argument | George Bush is a good communicator because he speaks effectively. |
| Either/or | We can either stop using cars or destroy the earth. |
| Ad Hominem | Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies. |
| Ad populum | If you were a true American you would support the rights of people to whatever car they want. |
| Red Herring | The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe, but what will fishermen do to support their families. |
| Straw man | People who don't support the proposed state minimum wage increase hate the poor. |
| Moral Equivalence | That parking attendant who gave me a ticket is as bad as Osama bin Laden. |
| Logical | reason or sound judgement |
| diversionary | to distract the attention of someone |
| oversimplifies | to simplify to the point of causing misrepresentation or error. |
| fallacy | misleading or unsound argument |
| conclusion | the end, or final part. |
| insufficient | not enough |
| biased | prejudice |
| hollow | weak full of holes |
| atrocities | extremely brutal or evil. |
