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Top 20 Logical Fallacies Examples
1. Ad Hominem
Zahra: I don't believe in abortions
Michelle: of course you do you're only saying that because you're Muslim
Zahra: what about the arguments I can give you to support my position?
Michelle: they wouldn't count, like I said you're Muslim
2. Ad ingorantiam
Michelle: my parents said they are pretty sure you were adopted
James: if I were adopted I would know by now because my parents would have told me, but since I wasn't told that I was adopted, means I wasn't adopted.
3. Argument from Authority
Sarah: I was watching a commercial on TV and my favourite actress was wearing this new Chanel perfume I'm going to ask to get it for Christmas.
4. Appeal from final Consequences
Girl: I was reading in the paper that some girl was coming home from a party and they found her body in the woods she was raped and tortured, but I never go to parties anyway so that would never happen to me.
5. Argument from Personal Incredulity
1. Ad Hominem
Zahra: I don't believe in abortions
Michelle: of course you do you're only saying that because you're Muslim
Zahra: what about the arguments I can give you to support my position?
Michelle: they wouldn't count, like I said you're Muslim
2. Ad ingorantiam
Michelle: my parents said they are pretty sure you were adopted
James: if I were adopted I would know by now because my parents would have told me, but since I wasn't told that I was adopted, means I wasn't adopted.
3. Argument from Authority
Sarah: I was watching a commercial on TV and my favourite actress was wearing this new Chanel perfume I'm going to ask to get it for Christmas.
4. Appeal from final Consequences
Girl: I was reading in the paper that some girl was coming home from a party and they found her body in the woods she was raped and tortured, but I never go to parties anyway so that would never happen to me.
5. Argument from Personal Incredulity