Logic Stage — Year 1 Practice

Diverting attention with an irrelevant topic

Attacking the person instead of the argument

Rejecting an argument based on its origin

Deflecting by saying 'you do it too'

Citing a non-expert as an authority

It must be true because everyone believes it

Misrepresenting an argument to make it easier to attack

A question with a built-in unproven assumption

Using the conclusion as a premise

Using a word with two meanings in the same argument

Claiming one step leads inevitably to extreme consequences

What's true of a part must be true of the whole

Presenting only two options when more exist

Drawing broad conclusions from too few examples

Comparing things not similar enough to support the conclusion

Sequence doesn't prove causation

Correlation doesn't prove causation

Something is true because it hasn't been disproven

Using fear instead of evidence to persuade

Associating with positive/negative symbols to transfer feelings

It's better because elite people use it

It's right because it's always been done this way

It's better because it's newer/more advanced

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