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    Love Is a Fallacy

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    about the fallacies of logic so that Polly would be the perfect fit for the main character’s standards for a wife. It took him a night to make a perfect girl. And after that intellectual date‚ he decided to make their next dates romantic. After five nights‚ he finally had the courage to tell Polly his feelings that he loved him but he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words‚ that is‚ in a way that she make use of the fallacies. He told her that he doesn’t have to apply the fallacies all the

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    “Diverged for Divorce” The House Bill 1799‚ most commonly known as the Divorce Bill‚ has been filed on the Philippine Court since July 27‚ 2010 and is now a pending case in the House committee on revision of laws. For more than two years now‚ there has been an ongoing debate by lawyers‚ journalists‚ politicians and even religious leaders whether or not this Bill should be passed and be included in the Family Code of the Philippine Constitution. This unsettled issue has lead ta a debate in the class

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    titled “Is Advertising in Trouble?” written by ET Bureau from The Economic Times article. Nonetheless‚ in this article‚ they would be an argument between the first article and the second article. The first article tends to be weaker due to some fallacies identified in the article. What then‚ are the benefits of advertisements? In the first place‚ advertisements has been said to provide us with information about job vacancies and also about properties or cars for sale. Through advertisements‚ employers

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    Richer Lazo Nickhael De Guzman Paul Andrew Magbitang Appeal to Unqualified Authority A common variation of the typical Appeal to Authority fallacy is an Appeal to an Unnamed Authority. This fallacy is also known as an Appeal to an Unqualified Authority. This fallacy is committed when a person asserts that a claim is true because an expert or authority makes the claim and the person does not actually identify the expert. Since the expert is not named or identified‚ there is no way to tell

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    modes of reasoning

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    MODULE 1 HOMEWORK 4 NEUTRALIZING A FALLACY In each of the following‚ identify and neutralize the fallacy using the 6-step process for neutralizing a fallacy taught in class. Exercise 1: Senator Biddle has argued that we should outlaw violent pornography. The senator obviously favours complete governmental censorship of books‚ magazines and films. I am shocked that such a view should be expressed on the floor of the Senate. It runs counter to everything that this nation stands for.

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    Fallacies are all around us. Daily‚ when we watch TV‚ listen to the radio‚ or even read newspaper‚ we see or hear fallacies. But what is fallacy? According to Wikipedia “A fallacy is an argument that uses poor reasoning. An argument can be fallacious whether or not its conclusion is true”. Fallacies are part of everyday and become a basic in certain aspects of life. According to the writing center of UNC‚ there are a lot of fallacies. Here is some of fallacies look likes: Hasty generalization

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    Fallacies are defects that have the power to weaken an argument. Fallacious arguments are much more common than we may think‚ and they tend be persuasive to the casual listener or reader. Politicians‚ celebrities‚ and advertisement commercials constantly make use of them. As an example of a fallacy‚ I’m going to use the Hollywood celebrity Alec Baldwin in the commercial for Hulu. Alec Baldwin is known for his success in the movie industry. His career began on television in an NBC soap opera called

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    Critical Thinking

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    Name _Jordan Peterson___________ Critical Thinking Week 2 Homework (50 pts) 1. (12 pts.) Label each definition with the appropriate name of the fallacy from the following list. (Note there will be two fallacy names that are not used.) Ad hominem/attacking the person | Ad ignorantiam/appeal to ignorance | Ad populum/appeal to the people | Ad misercordiam/appeal to pity | Begging the Question/Circular Reasoning | Equivocation | Red Herring | Straw Man | A. Sliding from one

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    kids to argue and argue correctly. He uses these methods to increase harmony within the family. Although both articles are very well written‚ the article written by Heinrichs’ has more merit. Teaching his little ones to argue correctly and valid logical reasoning to back it up. Using this type of method his kids are able to behave themselves enabling Heinrich to interact with them in a way dumbfounds other parents. The article “For Arguments Sake‚” focus more on pathos‚ trying to appeal to our

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    experience of smoking and throat cancer. Also‚ there is a use of cause and affects of smoking‚ by the ad maker’s use of the combination of a quote from a throat cancer victim and a picture of him having to use a device to speak. 2) The only fallacies that seems to appeal to readers is the belief that all smokers will get throat cancer and that once one has throat cancer they have to use a vocal device in order to speak‚ which in reality may depend and vary from person to person. 3) The overall

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