You need to go to the party with me, otherwise you’ll just be bored at home.

Teacher: If I let you go to the bathroom pretty soon everybody will want to go to the bathroom. This is an example of

"Good morning! Have you gotten over the grouchy mood you were in?"

"The mind is like a knife, cutting through difficult problems. But just as too much cutting dulls a knife, so too much education dulls the mind."

"The two courses I took at UF were not very interesting. I don't think its a good university."

A driver with a New York license plate cuts you off in traffic. You decide that all New York drivers are terrible drivers.

What is a logical fallacy?

An interruption between the initial idea and the conclusion.

An argument based on a personal attack on someone's character.

Substituting a person's actual position with a misrepresented (and usually weaker) version of their argument.

"The Cardinals are the best football team because they're better than all the other teams."

Jack is a good athlete. Jack comes from Canada. Therefore, all Canadians are good athletes."

"Every time I go to sleep the sun goes down. Therefore, my sleeping causes the sun to set."

"To get better schools, we have to raise taxes. If we don't, we can't have better schools."

"Yes, we have safety issues in our factory. But we work really hard to make a good product."