Instructions | This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapter 11. Be sure you are in Chapter 11 when you take the quiz. | * Question 1 5 out of 5 points | | | Officer‚ please excuse my going over the speed limit‚ but my mother is ill and I’m being audited by the IRS‚ and I don’t know how I can meet all my bills.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Appeal to pity | Correct Answer: | Appeal to pity | | | | * Question 2 5 out of
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“Immigration and Fallacies – Do They Belong Together?” Critical/Analytical Paper Critical Thinking (HU 101) Introduction We didn’t talk about this topic in class‚ nor did I read an article which made me think of writing about this. But I heard the following conversation (simplified) about illegal immigration in the U.S. on campus: Anti: "I believe that illegal immigration is not good for our country." Pro: "Of course you would say that‚ you ’re a racist." Anti:
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The logical Fallacies in the article is immense. Within the article by Michelle Malkin‚ there were not a lot of information to back up the supposed facts. Malkin’s article seems to target towards right-wing conservatives or the “undecided” demographic. By appealing to them‚ Malkin’s used different logical fallacies and slander to attack the image towards the president and others at the time. In doing so‚ it can give people the wrong information or impression on the targeted persons in the reading
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Donald Trump is known for the use of fallacies on the internet. For this reason‚ the first fallacy I looked up was on Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Trump tweeted‚ “The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election‚ and so badly (306)‚ so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!” (@realdonaldtrump). It almost seems that Trump is the one spewing fake news‚ not the democrats. In fact‚ Trump has made over 100 false claims since he was sworn in‚ however this is not the point
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Language and Composition Leggett Argumentation and Logical Fallacies Emotional Appeals Scare Tactics= Coercing a favorable response by preying upon an audience’s fears. Anti-drug commercial- This is your brain. These are drugs. This is your brain on drugs. (with the appropriate pictures. Either or choices= making an audience choose between one choice or the other. “Either you’’’ do this or I’ll leave you. Slippery Slope= A fallacy in which a course of action is objected to on the grounds that
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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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many things about fallacies. In our powerpoint presentation‚ it says that each generation is to learn these fallacies. This tale of the college students and the teaching of fallacies was in a much different generation than we are in now. Some fallacies I learned of in this story that were different from the ones stated in my course text were‚ Dicto Simpliciter‚ Contradictory Premises‚ Ad Misericoriam‚ Hypothesis Contrary to Fact‚ and Poisoning the Well. The Dicto Simpliciter Fallacy is and argument
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fact‚ the fallacy‚ questions claims made with certainty about what would have happened if a past event or condition would have been different from what is actually was. Fallacies are errors in logical reasoning‚ or when an arguments language is wrong or vague. However‚ many of these errors aren’t determined in the argument until they are analyzed because they appear to “look good”. There are numerous types of fallacies: informal fallacies‚ formal fallacies‚ fallacies of ambiguity‚ fallacies of presumption
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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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Fallacy Summary and Application Paper What information can be gathered from‚ "Begging the Question‚" "Hasty Generalization‚" and "Appealing to Emotion?" Though from first glance‚ they generally do not have much in common. However‚ when looking deeper‚ you will see that they are all different types of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies‚ by definition‚ are errors of reasoning. Or‚ to put it in a simpler form‚ errors that may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers (Downes‚ 1995)
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