Logical Fallacies Handlist and it states that fallacies are statements that might sound reasonable or superficially true but are actually flawed or dishonest. It is important to avoid logical fallacies as they undermine your argument. There are several types of logical fallacies and to keep track of all of them you can separate them into different categories. There are four different main categories that the certain types can go into; they are fallacies of relevance‚ component fallacies‚ fallacies of
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Running head: FALLACY SUMMARY AND APPLICATION PAPER Fallacy Summary and Application Paper Nicole Thompson University of Phoenix Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making MGT350 William B. Rankin‚ II AAE January 24‚ 2005 Fallacy Summary and Application Paper What do you see when you look at Begging the Question‚ Hasty Generalization‚ and Appealing to Emotion? When you initially look at these three categories they may not seem to have too much in common. However‚ when you
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1. Question : (TCOs 2‚ 7 & 9) Determine which one of the rhetorical devices or fallacies covered so far in our course occurs in the passage below. In a court proceeding: "My client is a single parent and the sole provider for her six children. A guilty verdict will cause irreparable damage to her family. If she is sent to prison‚ her children will be deprived of the love and care they need from a mother. Please‚ for her children’s sake deliver a verdict of not guilty." Student Answer:Scare tactics
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Appeal to Pity As Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments states‚ writers use logical fallacies to gain audience approval‚ but all the statements are false (Faigley). One type of logical fallacy is the appeal to pity fallacy. For this fallacy‚ the arguer appeals to the audience’s emotional side to gain support on a claim that should be decided on more relevant or objective terms. Examples of this fallacy can be seen on commercials‚ campaigns‚ and various methods of advertising. The given examples
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Slippery slope is an informal fallacy of weak induction. It draws a conclusion from events of an exaggerated and improbable chain reaction. The following DIRECTV commercial shows a clear example of a fallacy of slippery slope: “When you wait forever for the cable guy‚ you get bored. When you get bored‚ you start staring out windows. When you start staring out windows‚ you see things you shouldn’t see. When you see things you shouldn’t see‚ you need to vanish. When you need to vanish‚ you fake your
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I found several videos that give good examples of logical fallacies. All the DirecTV commercials in this compilation are good examples of the slippery slope fallacy. Each commercial shows how having cable TV can lead to a chain of events that result in bad outcomes. These commercials used the slippery slope fallacy on purpose to entertain the audience. A slippery slope fallacy claims that once you make one choice‚ a chain of events will inevitably follow. The truth is that making the first choice
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Assumptions and Fallacies What are assumptions? How do you think assumptions might interfere with critical thinking? What might you do to avoid making assumptions in your thinking? Assumptions are beliefs or ideas that we hold to be true often with little or no evidence required. Our assumptions or beliefs may have merit or they may not. Critical thinking is a process of challenging our beliefs and the inferences or conclusions they cause us to make. In our lives‚ we are constantly using our
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Logical Fallacies is done manipulatively‚ always done on purpose and targets people’s ignorance and more of stupidity. The trial of the slave known as tituba is a perfect example of logical fallacy‚ because she had got beat really bad. Sweeping generalization is a logical fallacy where it can be named too broadly and where it can be applied to a general statement. Tituba fitted in this logical fallacy because people back then thoughtthough slaves were uncleaned and very low of the slaves and especially
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Fallacies and “Dirty Tricks” Identification The first person to try and categorize and systematically describe fallacies was Aristotle. He managed to identify thirteen different fallacies and divided them into two groups: Informal and Formal. The Informal Fallacy is hard to find because they can only be found and identified when you analyze the content of the argument. The Formal Fallacy is easy to identify because there is a defect to it and when you look at the logical formation of
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the dramatic Fallacy to keep ratings high‚ media seek strange/violent incidents to report/create dramas around murder makes up less than 1% of all crime‚ yet from watching TV or reading the papers‚ it seems like a commonplace events seems that most murders are well-planned‚ grisly affairs‚ or they happen solely by random chance in fact‚ most murders start as arguments that escalate into violence most crimes are relatively minor property crimes 2. the cops and courts fallacy police work made
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