1. Senior Seminar Mr. Clover
Adapted from Lagemaat, p. 129.
Student Examples
God exists because you can’t prove he
doesn’t.
1. Ad Ignorantiam
All bananas are yellow.
2. Hasty Generalizations
5 year olds cannot learn physics because they
3. Ad hominem are too young.
When it rains it is cloudy, therefore when it is
4. Post hoc ergo propter hoc cloudy it rains.
It is hot when the sun is out. The sun is out,
5. Circular Reasoning therefore it must be hot.
I know we need chocolate cake for the dinner
party but it is my grandma’s dream to have
6. Special Pleading
chocolate cake from this restaurant.
Lucy got bruises on her arms, arms are
weapons, therefore Lucy got weapons on her
7. Equivocation arms.
Positive attitudes bloom during spring, just as
8. False analogy flowers do.
Those who eat meat hate animals.
9. False Dilemma
Did you sneak out last night?
10. Loaded question