Here’s all the major fallacies covered this year on the 365DaysOfPhilosophy:

weasel words, slippery slope, appeal to authority, straw man, argument from ignorance, shifting the goalposts, post hoc ergo propter hoc, appeal to popularity, ad hominem, tu quoque, cum hoc ergo propter hoc, anecdotal fallacy, red herring, no true Scotsman fallacy, begging the question, hasty generalisation, false dilemma, and reductio ad absurdum. 

See if you can identify nine of them in the examples below:

The new car is the absolute best; after all, the President drives one and why would she drive a bad car? 

I eat chocolate every day and I’m always dealing with hiccups, so the hiccups must be a result of all the chocolate. 

Sure, my challenge scores are always at the bottom , but there’s bigger problems that we should be concerned about like why exams are being used to judge us. 

I deserve more cake, because my job is more important, and I get more cake, because I have an important job. 

The new car is the absolute best; after all , everyone in school has one and why would they drive a bad car? 

If you can’t handle the heat, you should either learn to deal with it or get out of the kitchen. 

Her strategy for the photo shoot is absurd, she thinks she’s the best at everything and that means she’ll lose at everything.

The new car is absolutely the best, there’s just no argument anywhere that doesn’t support it!

Sure, she thinks she can be a fashion model, but what about her qualifications to be a swimmer, aren’t those important too?

 

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