Recommended Practice: Fallacies of Evidence Handout #1 - Answer Key

1) Appeal to Ignorance 

2) False Alternative 

3) Questionable Cause 

4) Hasty Generalization 

5) Hasty Generalization

6) Slippery Slope 

7) Slippery Slope

8) Questionable Cause 

9) False Alternative 

10) None 

11) Hasty Generalization 

12) Questionable Cause 

13) False Alternative 

14) Appeal to Ignorance 

15) Slippery Slope 

16) None (Two Wrongs Make a Right is not a Fallacy of Evidence) 

17) Appeal to Ignorance 

18) False Alternative 

19) Questionable Cause

20) None (Appeal to Novelty isn't a Fallacy of Evidence) 

21) Appeal to Ignorance 

22) None (Appeal to Novelty, which is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

23) Questionable Cause 

24) Slippery Slope 

25) Hasty Generalization 

26) False Alternative 

27) Slippery Slope 

28) None (Personal Attack, which is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

29) False Alternative

30) None (Hyperbole, which is a Fallacy of Language) 

31) Appeal to Ignorance 

32) None (Bandwagon Argument and Appeal to Tradition, which are Fallacies of Relevance)

33) Questionable Cause 

34) None (Appeal to Novelty, which is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

35) Slippery Slope 

36) Questionable Cause 

37) Hasty Generalization

38) None (Bandwagon Argument, which is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

39) False Alternative 

40) Appeal to Ignorance 

41) Questionable Cause 

42) Slippery Slope 

43) False Alternative 

44) Hasty Generalization 

45) None (given the context, its reference to "thinking critically" seems vague, which is a Fallacy of Language) 

46) Appeal to Ignorance 

47) None (Hyperbole, which is a Fallacy of Language) 

48) None (Two Wrongs Make a Right, which is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

49) Questionable Cause 

50) Slippery Slope