University of Phoenix Material Dawn Bratthauer 11/19/2012 Final Exam: Fallacies‚ Assumptions‚ and Arguments Part I: Fallacies THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS CONTAIN VARIOUS KINDS OF FALLACIES. EVALUATE EACH AND IDENTIFY THE FALLACY USING THE MATCHING LIST ON PAGE 2. 1. We can recognize that athletes who participate in sports must be given special consideration in our grading system‚ or we can let the university sink into athletic oblivion. H. False dilemma 2. I don’t know what colleges
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Logical Fallacies There have been many tragic events during the course of 2012 and the start of 2013 that have sparked many controversial debates. One can conclude from the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown Connecticut to the marathon bombing in Boston that something must be done‚ but what exactly must be done is the topic of debate amongst every media outlet known to man. Through the course of this whole gun control and immigration debate‚ there have been many logical fallacies used by many politicians
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Institutions Essay Title: ‘Judicial precedent is best understood as a practice of the courts and not as a set of binding rules. As a practice it could be refined or changed by the courts as they wish.’ Discuss Judicial precedent is a judgment or decision of a court which is used as an authority for reaching the same decision in subsequent cases. In English law‚ judgment and decisions can represent authoritative precedent (which is generally binding and
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Corruption and the Slippery Slope Abstract This paper will address the “slippery slope” and how it relates to accepting gratuities. Also it will discuss theories on corruption such as the society-at-large hypothesis‚ the structural or affiliation hypothesis‚ and the rotten apple hypothesis. In policing‚ the term slippery slope applies to the corruption of morals of the officers. It basically means that corruption can begin with something that seems harmless at first‚ but will escalate
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Rebecca History 112 Fallacies and Weaknesses February 9‚ 2010 In his article‚ “Blacks Should Stop Agitating for Political Equality‚” Atlanta Exposition‚ 1895‚ Booker T. Washington said that blacks should take advantage of the new opportunities given to them rather than fight for more rights. Though he understood this tendency‚ saying‚ “… it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature
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A Formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the argument’s form without requiring an understanding of the argument’s content. All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs. * Appeal to probability – takes something for granted because it would probably be the case‚ (or might possibly be the case). * Argument from fallacy – assumes that if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious‚ then the conclusion itself is false. * Base rate fallacy – making a probability
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The tarn that surrounds the house is just one of the barriers that prevent contact with the outside world. Pathetic Fallacy‚ which is when nature reflects human emotions and seems to respond to human actions‚ can be seen as Roderick’s state of depression and isolation coincides with the dreary‚ dark‚ and gloomy aspects of the setting and house itself. The Usher family
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1. The (first) Cohen Fallacy is a term used to describe the erroneous method by which Cohen argues that socialism is superior to capitalism. In this method‚ one compares an ideal form of an economic governing system to a realistic form of an economic system and claims that the former is better. The issue here is that one makes a comparison between vastly different systems operating under differing assumptions‚ and therefore fails to compare them properly. Hence‚ the claim that one could be better
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As the first president of the United States‚ George Washington set a series of precedents. Four of the precedents that Mr. Washington set forth was: Two-term Presidency‚ Separation of Power‚ Organization of the Executive Branch of Government‚ and Foreign Policy. I will discuss each precedent and explain which of these precedents had the greatest impact on the American presidency. Two-term Presidency was a policy George Washington believed should be followed by future presidents because he did
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believed that the relationship between certainty and flexibility in judicial precedent has struck a fine line between being necessary and being precarious. The problem is that these two concepts of judicial precedent are seen as working against each other and not in tandem. There is proof‚ however‚ that as contrasting as they are on the surface they are actually working together to achieve one common goal. Judicial precedent in its broad definition is the process by which judges follow previously decided
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