Practices for tutorial. Part 1: Try to identify whats wrong with the following arguments. What fallacies are committed? Explain. 1. How can anyone seriously believe in evolution? I certainly don’t. How can you take seriously a theory that claims humans are just monkeys with less hair and that our ancestors were apes? 2. A recent study showed that students who cram immediately before examinations usually get lower grades than those who do not. Well‚ I certainly won’t make that mistake this
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"mortal nature" of man and questions the abstractions presented in the poem. The final line suggests an interpretation that is more like an analogy. "The Human Seasons" could be taken to be an analogy linking the different periods or "seasons" in a human life with the four seasons of the natural world. Keats begins by describing spring which when applied to the analogy represents the youthful time of man. "his lusty Spring‚ when fancy clear" is Keats’ description of youthful exuberance and of the search
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Alcott features various rhetorical strategies to create an appeal to emotion. She exhibits the compassion of the nurse for John‚ even in the face of inevitable death; she displays the altruistic mindset of John‚ and adds depth to her words by using analogies. She uses these tools in order to inflict a deep emotional feeling and an understanding of how awful the situation actually was. One of the rhetorical strategies of this piece is her compassion‚ even when seemingly futile‚ for the wounded soldier
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Within his poem‚ “Pass On‚” Michael Lee employs metaphor‚ cacophony‚ and analogy to reframe death as part of an ongoing cosmic process‚ rather than a sad and permanent ending. Lee elegantly uses metaphor to describe the painful final seconds of a homicide victim’s life as part of a larger progression. As Stephen‚ presumably a friend of the poem’s speaker‚ bleeds to death following a violent attack‚ the speaker compares Stephen’s humanity with a crowd quickly departing an auditorium‚ “the day Stephen
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MLK uses an analogy instead of direct reasoning is when he wrote “Isn’t this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquires precipitated the act by the misguided populace I which they made him drink hemlock?”. An example of a false analogy is “Isn’t this like condemning Jesus because his unique god consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion.” This would be an example of a false analogy because here
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seeing the other man‚ the dealer‚ using the slogan to justify his illegal actions. In the cartoon‚ Marlette used an example of common logical fallacies‚ false analogy. A false analogy is a false comparison‚ sometimes expressed as "comparing apples to oranges" (Chapter Two/Examining Thinking and Analyzing Argument 18). The false analogy in this cartoon is the comparison of the use of guns legally to the use of drugs illegally. The man in the truck shows that he believes in the law by being associated
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Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll From the comparison between the novel by Stevenson and the novel by Mary Shelley we noticed some important analogies. One of these regards the theme of the limits of Nature. Walton’s only aim in life is to travel towards the unknown; Frankenstein has the ambition of distinguishing himself in science and so he creates a living being by joining parts selected from corpses without respecting the rules of Nature; Dr Jekyll creates a potion able to release his evil side‚
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Cave Analogy‚ further explained the reasoning behind Socrates’ beliefs and actions. Overall‚ the cave represents real knowledge in the world compared to the fallacies society presents. The inside of the cave signifies a bell jar‚ encouraging naivety and ignorance‚ while the truths of the outside world linger just on the other side of the cave walls. The enlightened men walk around the perimeter and only through them can prisoners of the cave escape to freedom and truth. Via The Cave Analogy‚ Plato
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Principle of legality in criminal case: a comment on Ethiopian revenue and custom authority’s prosecutor Vs. Ato Daniel mekonin case* Salahadin Towfik 1. Synopsis of the case The prosecutor of Ethiopian revenue and custom authority (prosecutor here in after) had brought a charge against Mr Daniel mekonin (the accused here after) before federal first instance court‚ alleging that the accused had been caught while transporting 46.96 KG of crude gold from Ethiopia to Djibouti‚ between walechit
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it’s resources?" (358) Hardin points out that this metaphor causes unrealistic expectations of an equal and fair global society since there are currently not enough resources in the world to be evenly distributed. Hardin argues that the spaceship analogy is false‚ saying that "A true spaceship would have to be under the control of a captain‚ since no ship could possibly survive if its course were determined by committee. Spaceship Earth certainly has no captain; the United States is merely a toothless
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