LOGICAL FALLACY

CIRCULAR ARGUMENT

• Begins with what you want to end up with
• Logically valid because premise is true, so conclusion has to be true too.
• Circular logic can't be proven
• God says the bible is true, the bible says God is true

SLIPPERY SLOPE

• It is showing that some event must invevitable
• follow from another without any argument
• for the inevitability of the event in question
• Example:" we have to stop tuition increase! The next thing
• you know, they'll be charging 40,000 a semester

STRAW MAN

• Straw man fallacy happens when someone makes a suggestion
• and another person substitutes an exaggerated and distorted version of the suggestion
• Example: Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit messy."
• Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to clean them out everyday?"
• Jill: "I never said anything about cleaning them out every day. You just want too keep all your junk forever, which is just ridiculous."

POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC

• "After this, therefore because of this"
• Since event B happened after event A, event A has to be the cause for B
• Comes to a conclusion based only on the order of events
• I wore my favorite jersey for the game and we won, therefore I'm going to wear it for every game.