Logical Fallacies Worksheet
This worksheet helps grade 9 students identify and understand common logical fallacies in arguments and texts.
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Logical Fallacies
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. This worksheet will help you identify and understand common logical fallacies.
1. Which logical fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than the argument itself?
Straw Man
Ad Hominem
Slippery Slope
Bandwagon
2. "If we allow students to use cell phones in class, soon they'll be watching movies, playing games, and never paying attention. Grades will plummet, and our school will fail." This is an example of which fallacy?
Red Herring
False Dilemma
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Read each statement and identify the logical fallacy being used. Write your answer in the blank.
3. Everyone is buying the new 'Z-Phone', so it must be the best smartphone on the market.
4. My opponent says we should spend more on education, but he's a millionaire who sends his kids to private school. Why should we listen to him?
5. You're either with us or against us.
Indicate whether each statement is True or False.
6. A Red Herring fallacy introduces an irrelevant topic to distract from the original issue.
True
False
7. A Hasty Generalization draws a conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence.
True
False
8. Explain the difference between an Ad Hominem fallacy and a Straw Man fallacy.
9. Provide an example of a Bandwagon fallacy in a real-world scenario.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
10. Identify the logical fallacy used by Councilwoman Chen when she dismisses Councilman Davis's proposal based on his niece being a librarian.
11. Identify the logical fallacy used by Councilwoman Chen when she shifts the discussion from the library to potholes.
12. Identify the logical fallacy present in the newspaper editorial.