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    Women Can’t Have It All.” He also used the word “paleolithic” when he described the people who think that the man who takes six weeks of paid leave for new fathers is “acting like a women.” His logical fallacies can be also seen when he tries to make an argument or a point. His first logical fallacies was sentimental appeal. The way he used it was by describing a baby with “… ten fuzzy fingers and ten fuzzy toes and a tiny crescent-moon mouth…”(697). He used the baby description to get the attention

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    BWVW Study guide Syncretism- Pantheism- God and the world are the same thing. Ex. Eastern religions‚ Christian Science‚ The New Age movement‚ etc. Theocentric- the existence/reality of God will be at the center of how a person analyzes. (theo-Greek word for God) Theism- God exists‚ was the creator of the world‚ and is personally and intimately involved with His creation. God operates through natural law but can and does intervene in the affairs of mankind. Ex. Christianity‚ Judaism‚ Islam

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    person-argument directed at the person rather the argument Ex.) Congress should raise the minimum wage so that workers aren’t exploited. Reply-Nonsense‚ you only say that because you can’t find a good job. - Generalization - An informal fallacy; reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence and making a hasty conclusion. Ex.) I once knew a guy who killed his dog because he thought he could gain special powers this way. The same guy also watched a lot of fantasy cartoons

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    1. Describe why it is important to read critically. Critical reading allows writers to discover an author’s purpose‚ identify his/her tone and persuasive elements‚ recognize his/her position on an issue‚ and explore the strengths and weaknesses of an author’s argument‚ making readers have a deep understanding of the article and the issue. Also‚ critical reading helps readers construct and evaluate their own argument because it is the first step of critical writing (Goshgarian and Krueger 28). Moreover

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    conclusion could still be false. If the argument is valid‚ no counterexample is possible. 5. What is the Ad Hominem fallacy? This is an argument that attacks the person rather than the substance of the persons argument. 6. What is the slippery slope fallacy? The slippery slope fallacy has the form : x could possibly be abused ‚ therefore‚ we should not allow x. 7. What is the fallacy

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    Fallacies in Disguise: A Review of the Fallacious World of Media and Literature Raul A. Medina Professor Arangno Critical Thinking 14 May 2013 In the world we live in‚ we often forget about the things that we strive to go after because there is an infinite number of distractions that deviate us from such goals. And we have a tendency to do this over and over again. Such distractions are usually temporary and do not last for long before

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    Margaret Sanger’s “The Morality of Birth Control” was written with the use of bias and different rhetorical devices and fallacies. An example of bias in the work was written to show the stereotypes and bias experienced by women demonstrated by their male counterparts. She wrote‚ “We know that every advance that woman has made in the last half century has been made with opposition‚ all of which has been based upon the grounds of immorality. When women fought for higher education‚ it was said

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    reasoning fails. When you have finished this course‚ you may quickly forget the many names and labels but remain alert to failures in reasoning. Common Forms of Pseudoreasoning/Fallacies 1. Smokescreen/Red Herring 2. The Subjectivist Fallacy 3. Appeal to Belief 4. Common Practice 5. Peer Pressure and Bandwagon 6. Wishful Thinking 7. Scare Tactics 8. Appeal to Pity 9. Apple Polishing 10. Horse Laugh/Ridicule/Sarcasm 11. Appeal to Anger or Indignation 12. Two Wrongs Make a Right

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    of the surroundings than animals (Coren‚ 2009). He also mentioned that used the story of the dog to support their arguments. Consequently it can be inferred that he’s indirectly accusing them of approaching slippery slope fallacy. The author himself used a false dilemma fallacy when he mentioned that in ancient times‚ struggling communities had to either struggle because of their overpopulation and necessity or to kill their children to survive which is not

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    Fallacies in Media One rich source of fallacies is the media: television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and the Internet. The arguments you experience in your daily life (work‚ family‚ shopping) are another source of fallacies. Identify three distinct informal logical fallacies you have experienced in the media or in your life. Explain how the fallacies were used and the context in which they occurred. Then‚ explain what the person presenting the fallacy should have done to ensure that he or she was not committing

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