Critical Thinking Flaws

1. Using evidence from the past to try to predict the future (6, 2, 7)
6. taking two different things as if they are the same when they may not be (e.g. older or mature) (10)
7. creating a caricature (weak form) of the counter-argument and easily dismissing it, and then claiming to have dismissed the whole counter-argument (5, 9)
8. Because we have always done something in this particular way, does not make it correct (6, 2, 7)
9. Using an authority figure to support the reasoning (6, 2, 9)
10. An argument based upon emotion without reason (6, 2, 7)

2. Argues that A caused B because B came after A (4, 3)
3. restricting the options to just two possibilities only (5, 9)
4. Argues that a small event will lead to an extreme result, the link between the first event and final result is weak (8, 5)
5. an attack on the person rather than the reasoning (2, 7)

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