Logical Fallacies via Burritos
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How Not to Ask For a Burrito
Logical FallaciesOriginal list from http://hubpages.com/hub/Logical-Fallacies-Quiz
Claim:
Explain in your own words why it’s not logically convincing
Official Logical Fallacy name
100% of the people I’ve asked say you should buy me a burrito
Appeal to Statistics
Buy me a burrito because everyone else has bought me one.
Bandwagon
Buy me a burrito because my ancestors were persecuted.
In margine immunitas
Buy me a burrito because nobody loves me.
Appeal to pity
Buy me a burrito or I’ll kill you
Appeal to Fear
(probably effective, but not good logic)
Buying me a burrito justifies that bank robbery you pulled.
Robin Hood syndrome
Either you buy me a burrito or it’s obvious the world is filled with nothing but hatred.
False dilemma
I just think you should buy me a burrito.
Subjectivist fallacy
If you don’t buy me a burrito, I’ll be hungry. My blood sugar will drop, making me cranky. Then I won’t feel like helping that stalled car on the side of the road. What if the driver of that car is a surgeon rushing to the hospital to perform a heart transplant? Someone could die!
Slippery Slope
Students who buy me a burrito tend to end up with higher grades.
Correlation is not causation
Jesus commanded me to tell you to buy me a burrito.
Appeal to faith
Many people buy burritos every day; therefore, you should buy me a burrito right now.
Misapplied Generalization
Not buying me a burrito is like kicking a starving orphan child in the stomach.
False analogy
Of course you should buy me a burrito. Can you tell me why you shouldn’t?
Shifting the burden of proof
One might possibly consider the option as having a certain amount of merit, that it is not a thoroughly negative outcome for a burrito or some form of comestible to be bought, perhaps, by one person, sharing identity with - to provide one example – you, for another such organism, represented in such a scenario by someone like me.
Amoeba vocabula/ Proof by verbosity
You won’t buy me a burrito? You’re a jerk.
Ad hominem
You are such a great friend and enlightened, charitable person that you’ll obviously buy me a burrito.
Appeal to flattery
You should buy me a burrito because I should be bought a burrito by you.
Circular logic
THIS is also what “begging the question” means – not “raising” or “asking” one.
Now you know and can avoid misusing that phrase!
You should buy me a burrito because England is in Europe.
Red Herring or Non Sequitor
You: I love Burritos.Me: You should buy me a burrito because you said you’d love to buy me one!
Strawman fallacy
Logic & Logical Fallacies
Any final questions or thoughts?