EXERCISES IN PHILOSOPHY

15 LOGICAL FALLACIES

1. If we give in every time our baby cries, he will always pitch a fit to get
what he wants, and he will end up in prison because we never set
limits.

2. Marie notices that many of her friends have started eating a low-carb
diet and drinking protein shakes. Marie decides that this must be the
healthy way to eat, so she joins them.

3. A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. Now,
think about it, that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

4. Pamela is the class secretary. She says that she thinks that the class
should do more service projects. Mark says he can't believe that
Pamela doesn't support the annual school dance.

5. A commercial claims that a specific brand of cereal is the best way to

start the day because athlete Michael Jordan says that it is what he
eats every day for breakfast.

6. Evidence A and evidence B is available. Evidence A supports the

claim of person .Evidence B supports the counterclaim of person
2.Therefore, person 1 presents only evidence A.

7. Killing people is wrong, therefore, the death penalty is wrong.

8. Commercials that show starving children in Africa before asking for

donations to feed them.
9. A parent who says that the teacher doesn't know how to teach
because she graduated from a rural college.

10. In The Crucible, Mrs. Putnam tries to argue that her babies
were not born healthy because of the midwife.

11. Christa is thinking about becoming a vegetarian. Then she

learns that many mass murderers were also vegetarians. So, she
keeps eating meat.

12. Jennifer comes to class just as the bell rings every day.
Jennifer's arrival at class causes the bell to ring.

13. Drink Lipovitan every day, it gets you stronger and faster.

14. You are for us, or you are against us.

15. I sneezed at the same time the power went off. My sneeze did
something to make the power go off.