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Fallacies quiz

This quiz will contain a few examples of fallacies. Can you correctly name which fallacy is used? Everybody can, knowingly or unknowingly, use fallacies. Recognising them can be difficult. Always be on the lookout for fallacies like these, they can twist arguments and the truth. What are fallacies? A fallacy is a reasoning that is evaluated as logically incorrect and that undermines the logical validity of the argument and permits its recognition as unsound. Regardless of their soundness, all registers and manners of speech can demonstrate fallacies.
Types of fallacies taken from either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies or www.logicallyfallacious.com
All of these sentences contain a fallacy.
Both the English and the Latin name is allowed
Please note that every sentence is used to explain a common fallacy. None are meant to give my opinion on a topic, nor are they meant to inform or educate on a topic. They merely point out a fallacy in the logic.
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Fallacies
Type of Fallacy
To this very day (at the time of this writing), science has been unable to create life from non-life; therefore, life must be a result of divine intervention.
Argument from ignorance
A student claims that the school is overcharging students for lunch. The teacher says that she does not believe that is happening. The student asks the teacher to prove that lunch prices are fair.
Onus Probandi
Every unicorn has a horn on its forehead
existential fallacy
Major premise: Nothing is better than eternal happiness. Minor premise: A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Conclusion: A ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
A fallacy of Four terms
A politician mentioned all the cities where his tax policy decreased crime and failed to mention all the cities where his policy increased crime.
Fallacy of incomplete evidence
Fallacies
Type of Fallacy
Imagine grains of sand in a bag. I can lift the bag when it contains one grain of sand. If I can lift the bag with X amount of grains of sand then I can certainly lift it with 1 extra grain of sand (It is absurd to think I can lift X grains but adding a single grain makes it too heavy to lift). Therefore, you can keep adding 1 grain of sand and I can lift the bag of sand, even if it has five tons of sand.
Continuum fallacy
Our widgets cost less and last longer!
Incomplete Comparison
No atoms are alive. Therefore, nothing made of atoms is alive.
Fallacy of composition
The Bible is the Word of God because God tells us it is in the Bible.
Circular reasoning
You either support this bill or you're unpatriotic
Black-and-white fallacy
Whenever there is a school shooting, there emerge dozens of speculative opinions, many indexing a single cause such as the availability of guns.
Fallacy of the single cause
Mike said I should eat healthier. He's spent more time in jail than on the street. He is in no position to give me advice on life.
argumentum ad hominem
I won’t go to that optometrist; everybody I know who goes to him ends up wearing glasses.
Post Hoc Fallacy
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