There are many informal fallacies that can be discussed but I have chosen to speak of Bifurcation‚ and the Red Herring Fallacy. Bifurcation is a fallacy in which you are given a situation and a choice to make. It tries to let one feel as though it is either of those options but in reality there could be many more. In a sense it is like not telling the complete truth. You don’t really lie because you didn’t actually give a false choice or statement‚ but you didn’t really give all of the information
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More Fallacies Quiz I (See related pages) Results Reporter | | Out of 3 questions‚ you answered 2 correctly with a final grade of 67% | | | | | | 2 correct (67%) | | | | 1 incorrect (33%) | | | | 0 unanswered (0%) | | | Your Results: | The correct answer for each question is indicated by a . | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Please answer all questions. | 1 CORRECT | | It is fair to say that all rhetorical devices tempt
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EECS 203‚ Discrete Mathematics Winter 2012‚ University of Michigan‚ Ann Arbor Your name Date: January 16‚ 2012 Homework 1 Solutions Collaborators: Names of collaborators Problem 1 [Ch 1.1 #22] Write each of these statements in the form “if p‚ then q” in English. a) If you get promoted‚ then you wash the boss’s car. b) If the winds are from the south‚ then there will be a spring thaw. c) If you bought the computer less than a year ago‚ then the warranty is good. d) If Willy cheats‚ then
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MATERIAL FALLACIES MATERIAL FALLACIES • Fallacies of Relevance – irrelevant premises (diversion) • • • • • The appeal to populace (ad populum) The appeal to pity (ad misericordiam) The appeal to force (ad baculum) The argument against person (ad hominem) Irrelevant Conclusion • Fallacies of Defective Induction – weak premises • • • • The argument from ignorance (ad ignorantiam) The appeal to inappropriate authority (ad vericundiam) False Cause Hasty Generalization MATERIAL FALLACIES • Fallacies
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1. Which of the following standards of thinking relates to how one might verify the truth of a statement or claim? (Points :1) Clarity Relevance Depth Accuracy Breadth Question 2. 2. Although Marquis had been working on research for a year‚ he listened to the other people at his company as they presented different conclusions after his presentation and examined their ideas in the hope of finding out new information. Marquis displayed which
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Base Rate Fallacy Base rate fallacy is when probabilistic inference is made based only on data relating specifically to the situation but ignores additional background or general data relating to the instance of the situation that sometimes leads to wrong conclusions. Base rate fallacy is a “paradigmatic Bayesian inference problem” (Bar-Hillel‚ 1979). If we consider a situation where a hit and run occurred at night in a city where there are 2 cab companies and a cab was suspected to have been involved
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Last Class: RPCs and RMI • Case Study: Sun RPC • Lightweight RPCs • Remote Method Invocation (RMI) – Design issues Computer Science CS677: Distributed OS Lecture 1‚ page 1 Today: Communication Issues • Message-oriented communication – Persistence and synchronicity • Stream-oriented communication Computer Science CS677: Distributed OS Lecture 1‚ page 2 Persistence and Synchronicity in Communication • General organization of a communication system in which hosts
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In “The Second Night”‚ Sam attempts to object Gretchen’s theory‚ The Body Theory of Personal Identity‚ which states that two beings are the same person as long as their bodies are numerically identical. Sam’s first argument states that Gretchen’s argument violates the epistemic constraint of knowing which person is which on an everyday basis and thus the body theory is false. 1. If the Body theory is true‚ then this morning I’m the same person I was yesterday only if I have the same body I did yesterday
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The logical framework approach and the writing of proposals 1 GENERAL REMARKS 2 What is a proposal? A proposal is a crucial document: donors will decide whether or not to finance your project based on what you have written. Any proposal should reflect thoughtful planning 3 Identify the project idea Demand from the community Project Needs as defined by experts Available resources 4 Some recommendations… 1. Make sure that you are addressing a genuine problem and that you are
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1. Comment on the commercials below. Be sure to identify the specific logical fallacy in #3 . The given commercials serve up to the mark in understanding the fallacies in a huge manner. First ad has false authority’s presence as celebrities are put forth against us to nullify our cognition. On the other hand‚ in the second ad‚ as stated‚ ad hominem is detected as it attacks certain cable companies by means of pig’s illustration regarding its expensiveness. Here‚ it conceals suggested cable operator’s
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