An Illustrated Book Of Bad Arguments By Brooks Barnes

Arguments arise naturally in normal conversation, in the form of statements given to another person. Wether that argument indeed has good foundation behind it is what we learned to analysis in this class. My first idea of a location to find arguments was to look up bad arguments, to which I found a great book online titled An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, where I found the above image. The arguments of the book were describing poor arguments in the form of alternative ideas following the same logical format. The above picture is an example of hasty generalization, which inspired my first argument topic. That topic was to find an argument that was inaccurately making an assumption about a topic. I found an argument that fit this in a
I believe this argument is a weak argument because the premises are not reasonable to believe. In order to be a strong argument, premises must be reasonable. I the case of this argument it is not reasonable to believe premise B. Although there are some sequels being made from other movies and content that is not a cause for movie titles in general to increase in size. I also have a problem with a lack of determination of what is a long and what is a short titled movie in his article. There is no effort given to describe statistically what the length movie titles have been in previous years compared to the present, nor has he given information regarding the number of sequels that have been made. I believe that he is making the more general assumption that all movie titles are getting longer regardless of being a sequel or not given the content of the entire article which is hard to
I did not include the entire article here but he makes references to many movies but does not define what makes a movie title in fact long. In his examples of short movie titles he gives one word titles, but there is no backing behind having a one word title verses any other word numbered title. There has not been enough observation in my perspective to properly explain the conclusion that is being drawn in this case. The premise in particular that is causing this argument to be weak is premise B, because it is biased in that it is based entirely off the his experience. I have chosen to insert some movie titles of my own into this discussion in order to show that the title of many films are not just short one word titles and have body to them. I was unable to find a source that provided a graph of the change in movie titles over time nor was I able to accurately determine what makes a move title long or