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Cal State Fullerton: Common Fallacies in Reasoning HandoutCal State Fullerton: Common Fallacies in Reasoning Handout
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9th - 10th
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Cal State Fullerton: Common Fallacies in Reasoning

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This page from California State University at Fullerton list twenty-three common fallacies in reasoning. Each includes an explanation and two examples. The list includes the following: faulty cause, sweeping generalization, hasty generalization, faulty analogy, appeal to ignorance, bifurcation, false dilemma, faulty sign, damning the source, tu quoque, equivocation, begging the question, tautology, appeal to authority, appeal to tradition, appeal to the crowd, straw man, slippery slope, appealing to extremes, hypothesis contrary to fact, non sequitar, red herring, and inconsistency.

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persuasion, persuasive techniques

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appeal to authority, appeal to ignorance, appeal to tradition, begging the question, bifurcation, equivocation, fallacy, false dilemma, faulty analogy, flawed logic, hasty generalization, non sequitur, red herring, slippery slope, straw man, tautology, appeal to the crowd, appealing to extremes, damning the source, errors of faulty logic, faulty cause, faulty sign, hypothesis contrary to fact, inconsistency, sweeping generalization, tu quoque, other persuasive techniques

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RI.9-10.8

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