Difference Between Straw Man And Hasty Conclusion
The central theme of this reflection, is to explain what both straw man and hasty conclusion mean. Straw man is a clever and subtle, but quite common, way of distorting and then attacking an opponent’s argument. Someone who uses the straw man technique will take his or her opponent’s claims and exaggerate or distort them. He or she would also proceed to pick apart and eventually destroy this newly created, false, more easily attacked argument. An example of the straw man fallacy would be, a speaker making a claim such as, “I believe that AK47’s should be outlawed due to no one needing that level of firepower to be protected.” After hearing this statement a speaker who uses the straw man argument would make a statement such as, “As we can see,
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When we want to know the answer to a serious problem or event, we may be tempted to draw a hasty conclusion, or hasty generalization that is to make a claim based on insufficient information. Hasty conclusions are encountered when people take a stand or make a claim based on limited evidence. An example of a hasty conclusion is, an epidemic of HIV/Aids being spread throughout a country, and people automatically assume that it is caused by sexual intercourse and nothing else. When someone defends a position without adequate support for that position, faulty reasoning has occurred; we may say that the person is jumping to conclusions. After learning both of these fallacies, I am able to understand both straw man and hasty conclusion. The straw man fallacy is used basically to distort and twist another person’s words around and weaken there argument. It completely takes another speakers word’s out of context and makes the argument easy to attack. Hasty conclusions is the attempt to draw conclusions while have little to no evidence to actually prove that your conclusion is correct. Professionals usually strive to be careful about their judgments, and reporters make sure that their sources are reliable in order to prevent drawing a hasty
When we want to know the answer to a serious problem or event, we may be tempted to draw a hasty conclusion, or hasty generalization that is to make a claim based on insufficient information. Hasty conclusions are encountered when people take a stand or make a claim based on limited evidence. An example of a hasty conclusion is, an epidemic of HIV/Aids being spread throughout a country, and people automatically assume that it is caused by sexual intercourse and nothing else. When someone defends a position without adequate support for that position, faulty reasoning has occurred; we may say that the person is jumping to conclusions. After learning both of these fallacies, I am able to understand both straw man and hasty conclusion. The straw man fallacy is used basically to distort and twist another person’s words around and weaken there argument. It completely takes another speakers word’s out of context and makes the argument easy to attack. Hasty conclusions is the attempt to draw conclusions while have little to no evidence to actually prove that your conclusion is correct. Professionals usually strive to be careful about their judgments, and reporters make sure that their sources are reliable in order to prevent drawing a hasty