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    Logical fallacies are everywhere and are committed by everyone. These fallacies are committed by even people you trust such as politicians‚ doctors‚ and even teachers. In the logical fallacy below‚ the billboard is trying to convince the reader that any atheist is also trying to bring America into another civil war. The first logical fallacy committed by Rev. Briggs‚ the person promoting this advertisement‚ is “attacking the person.” Attacking the person means that a person’s character‚ not

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    (iii). Mintzberg (1994)‚ uses chapter five as a review of the fallacies of strategic planning. In his "grand fallacy‚ "the failures of planning are not coincidental but central to the very nature of planning. These fallacies underlying strategic planning are: The Fallacy of Prediction: The act of planning assumes predetermination. It projects in advance the future environment; the unfolding of the strategy formation process on schedule‚ and the ability to impose the resulting strategies on an

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    The term naturalistic fallacy was first coined by the philosopher G.E. Moore. He defined it as an illegitimate derivation of normative conclusions from purely factual premises. In other words‚ it is the argument that a value statement cannot be defined from a factual one. Moore’s explanation of the naturalistic fallacy stemmed from what he believed‚ was an undefinable term‚ the term “good”. He likened the term “good” to a color “yellow” and thus concluded that the term “good” was undefinable. He

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    Fallacies Analysis Prompt

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    Fallacies Analysis Prompt List the premises and conclusion of the following arguments Restating any rhetorical questions as declarative sentences Replacing emotive language with more purely cognitive language. Identify any assumptions List them as separate premises. Identify the type of argument – is it a generalization‚ a categorical syllogism‚ etc.? Finally‚ identify any fallacies it commits. (There may be more than one.) Argument 1: Pro-abortion liberals are wrong to make ‘choice’ the ultimate

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    NJ. It discusses the rules and regulations that need to be followed for the benefit of the dogs’ and owners’ health. However‚ this is a post hoc fallacy‚ because the article title makes the reader believe that the dogs become happy if all the rules are followed. The dogs can be happy without all the rules being followed‚ showing that it’s a post hoc fallacy. 2. Appeal to Authority I was watching the Ohio State and Indiana football game on October 3‚ when I saw a commercial advertising Madden NFL 16

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    Also using by using his mother this makes emotional fallacy. This is a great example as after this it leaves people thinking that to be a good parent or if I want my child to succeed then I must feed them Subway. This is far from the truth. Furthermore‚ with the popularity fallacy they say that all it has people believe that all athletes are doing it so why shouldn’t I eat Subway? In the movie Mean Girls they do use the poisoning the well fallacy‚ but this is not an advertisement. With the Pedigree

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    To begin with‚ many advertisements use fallacies to promote their product. In a way‚ they make the mind of the consumer chose between their product over the competition. An example of an argument is in a 2012 Direct TV add the narrator says “When your cable company keeps you on hold‚ you get angry. When you get angry‚ you go blow off steam‚ when you go blow off steam‚ accidents happen. When you get an eye patch‚ people think you’re tough. When people think you’re tough‚ people want to see how tough

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    Sunk Cost Fallacy

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    Sunk cost Fallacy is the time and money you put into that it makes it hard for you to quit. It’s positive to quit becuase you will be saving time and money‚ instead of going through it and wasting more on it. Not only that but‚ they will feel liberated that they don’t have to do something they don’t want to do. We are prone to make mistakes becuase we are human beings‚ we aren’t perfect. I have done this so many times‚ especially with classes in school. I would take some classes and half way over

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    Question 1 | | 0 / 1 point | “Since more than a million dollars are needed to staff a properly run cruise in the Caribbean‚ it must be that every employee on board makes more than a million dollars on each cruise!” commits the fallacy of | | slippery slope | | | equivocation | | | amphiboly | | | composition | | | division | Question 2 | | 0 / 1 point | Is the sentence “Man sanctioned over Lewis assault” amphibolous? | | It is amphibolous | | | It is not amphibolous

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    simile “like I hardly knew her anymore” which emphasises their changed relationship. | |“The clouds were out and a storm was threatening” (p 105) |Pathetic fallacy tone‚ foreshadowing |When Tom visits the police station‚ the negative description of the weather‚ with the aminous storm “threatening” reflects his own emotional turmoil through pathetic fallacy. | |“I’m not saying Daniel was innocent‚ what he did was wrong‚ very wrong‚ but he was no criminal” (p135) |Repetition‚ conditional conjunction (“but”)

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