1) Begging the Question: Student: Why didn’t I receive full credit on my essay? Teacher: Because your paper did not meet the requirements for full credit.
2) Ad Hominem: How can you enjoy that bacon when you’re fighting for vegetarianism?
3) Equivocation: Giving money to charities is the right thing to do. So charities have a right to our money.
4) Slippery Slope: If I fail english 300, I wont be able to take my upper division classes. If I can’t take my upper division classes, I wont be able to graduate, and then because I don’t have my degree I wont get a good job. You may see me working at Starbucks if I keep it up.
5) Straw Man: Person 1: We should chill on the laws with alcohol. Person 2: No, because then we become addicted since its a free for all.
6) Tu Quoque: Your argument is pointless because you smoked when you were my age too!
7) Non-sequitur: I got sick from eating bad sushi. The burger was good though.
8) False Dichotomy: Rachel Carson Hall isn’t holding up well under the weather. We should tear it down and rebuild it or it can become a huge safety liability to students. Second thought, we should tear it down.
9) Argument from ignorance:Don’t move to Sacramento because it’s hot all the time.
10) Red Herring: Grading this exam on a curve would be the most fair thing to do. After all classes go more smoothly when students and the teacher get along well.
Argument from ignorance:**You can’t prove that there aren’t Martians living in caves under the surface of Mars, so it is reasonable for me to believe there are.
Begging the question:**Killing people is wrong, so the death penalty is wrong
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