Logical Fallacies Examples UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring class - CORRECT
ANSWER - Hasty generalization
The public should not support Dr. Mason's plan for improving county health services. He is a
former alcoholic whose wife recently divorced him - CORRECT ANSWER - Ad hominem
Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so
must employees - CORRECT ANSWER - Weak analogy
Cigarettes should be banned. Children who start smoking cigarettes will then move onto weed,
he'll get curious and then try coke, then LSD, then heroin. Cigarettes are the gateway to death -
CORRECT ANSWER - Slippery slope
My roommate said her philosophy class was difficult and the one I'm in is difficult too. All
philosophy classes must be hard - CORRECT ANSWER - Hasty generalization
I drank tap water and now I am sick, so the water made me sick. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Faulty causality
You are either conservative or liberal - CORRECT ANSWER - False dichotomy
Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they were all thought up by dirty, lazy hippies -
CORRECT ANSWER - Ad hominem
You want schools to teach sex Ed that goes beyond abstinence only? I don't think it's appropriate
to tell children in kindergarten how to use a condom - CORRECT ANSWER - Straw man
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring class - CORRECT
ANSWER - Hasty generalization
The public should not support Dr. Mason's plan for improving county health services. He is a
former alcoholic whose wife recently divorced him - CORRECT ANSWER - Ad hominem
Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so
must employees - CORRECT ANSWER - Weak analogy
Cigarettes should be banned. Children who start smoking cigarettes will then move onto weed,
he'll get curious and then try coke, then LSD, then heroin. Cigarettes are the gateway to death -
CORRECT ANSWER - Slippery slope
My roommate said her philosophy class was difficult and the one I'm in is difficult too. All
philosophy classes must be hard - CORRECT ANSWER - Hasty generalization
I drank tap water and now I am sick, so the water made me sick. - CORRECT ANSWER -
Faulty causality
You are either conservative or liberal - CORRECT ANSWER - False dichotomy
Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they were all thought up by dirty, lazy hippies -
CORRECT ANSWER - Ad hominem
You want schools to teach sex Ed that goes beyond abstinence only? I don't think it's appropriate
to tell children in kindergarten how to use a condom - CORRECT ANSWER - Straw man
