Vivian's Logical Fallacies Challenge

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Across
  1. 5. To be more easily attacked or opposed, the opponent's argument is exaggerated or misrepresented.
  2. 6. I don't have time to get organized. Disorganization is costing me time.
  3. 9. If you fail this class, you won’t graduate from school.
  4. 10. Three girls have been born to the family in a row. The next one will almost certainly be a boy.
  5. 13. The principal wanted to know if school discipline procedures were fair. He asked only the students in the in-school suspension class.
  6. 14. when someone thinks that because one incident occurred after another, it then must have caused the previous
  7. 17. Jim says that ostriches cannot fly. Sarah, on the other hand, claims that ostriches can fly. Therefore, some ostriches will certainly be able to fly.
  8. 18. The film Jaws is an example of the poisoning the well fallacy because it depicts sharks as terrible killers, making people scared to swim.
  9. 19. when you reason from an either-or perspective without considering all relevant choices.
  10. 20. you did not do something but the people you are associate with you did
  11. 21. Instead of logical and valid arguments, they rely on popular belief and conduct.
Down
  1. 1. A fallacious argument based on the claims of a false authority figure posing as a trustworthy authority on the subject at hand.
  2. 2. Scientists have proven that the Bible has errors and can't be trusted
  3. 3. a question with an underlying assumption
  4. 4. The analogy between a book and a computer is weak because one can be read while the other cannot.
  5. 7. It states that a statement is true because it has yet to be proven false, or that a claim is wrong because it has yet to be shown true.
  6. 8. It may be true for you that studying results in higher grades, but not for me.
  7. 11. using a concept while denying the validity of its genetic roots
  8. 12. Everyone in our family has gone to the University of Tennessee, so you need to apply to UT.
  9. 15. A political candidate's speech about the dangers of drug use is attacked because there is record of him using drugs while in college.
  10. 16. someone provides irrelevant material in order to divert attention from a topic being discussed