Logical fallacies: fill in the blanks · Grade 12

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line. Some words are not used.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• tu quoque · Refutations · dilemma ____ red herring ____ to the person circular ____ straw man ____ bandwagon ____ slippery slope ____ correlation cherry picking
• 1 Ad hominem is Latin for ____.
• 2 Saying a book is trustworthy because the book says so is reasoning.
• 3 Saying you either love this film or hate all cinema is a false ____.
• 4 Distorting an opponent's view to knock it down is a · argument.
• 5 A claim that everyone is doing it is the · fallacy.
• 6 Picking only the warmest days to prove a year was hot is ____.
• 7 Changing the subject to an unrelated issue is a ____.
• 8 Ice cream sales and sunburns rise together, but · does not prove causation.
• 9 Aristotle catalogued thirteen fallacies in his work On Sophistical ____.