Recommended Practice: Fallacies of Evidence Handout #2 - Answer Key

1) Hasty Generalization 

2) False Alternative

3) Questionable Cause 

4) Appeal to Ignorance 

5) Appeal to Ignorance 

6) Hasty Generalization 

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

8) Questionable Cause 

9) Slippery Slope 

10) False Alternative 

11) None (Its reference to "fool" is a hyperbolic personal attack.  However, hyperbole is a Fallacy of Language and personal attack is a Fallacy of Relevance) 

12) Hasty Generalization 

13) False Alternative 

14) Appeal to Ignorance 

15) False Alternative 

16) Slippery Slope 

17) Slippery Slope 

18) Appeal to Ignorance 

19) Questionable Cause 

20) Questionable Cause 

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

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

23) Slippery Slope 

24) False Alternative

25) Questionable Cause 

26) Questionable Cause 

27) Hasty Generalization 

28) Appeal to Ignorance 

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

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

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

32) Questionable Cause 

33) Hasty Generalization 

34) Slippery Slope 

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

36) Hasty Generalization  

37) Appeal to Ignorance 

38) False Alternative 

39) None (Weasel Word, which is a Fallacy of Language) 

40) None 

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

42) None (Appeal to Tradition, which is a Fallacy of Relevance)  

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

44) None (Weasel Word, which is a Fallacy of Language)  

45) Slippery Slope  

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

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

48) None (Euphemism, which is a Fallacy of Language)  

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

50) Questionable Cause