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    cold because we feel sympathy. We sometimes slam the door when we are angry. Sometimes‚ we have no control over our emotions. However‚ emotions may go as far as to reason with our minds‚ validating/disproving claims irrationally. Emotional reasoning fallacy is the error of letting our emotions to dictate our logical thinking and validation capabilities. We refuse to accept facts and evidence because they cause emotional distress to ourselves. A great example would be charity statistics. The Justice Board

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    I THE FUSION FALLACY If an Australian lawyer were asked about the significance of 1975 in the development of Australian law‚ he or she would no doubt point to the famous constitutional crisis that culminated‚ on Armistice Day of that year‚ in the use by the Governor-General of the ‘reserve powers’ to dismiss the government of the day. That event generated great legal and political controversy for many years‚ and ‘left many unresolved problems’.[2] Yet‚ except as an issue in the now muted republican

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    5 Dangerous Food Fallacies and Practices Celebrated author and TV personality Julia Child once joked: “Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb‚ you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?” Kitchen practices in relation to food health and safety‚ in truth‚ have been evolving. Microbial activities‚ including bacterial benefits and detriments‚ have been undergoing a huge amount of demystification. A number of practices and measures believed to be safe - even

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    falling into the trap of conjunction fallacy. People caught in conjunction fallacy find it easier to conceive two events occurring together than them happening separately. To be more precise a conjunction fallacy occurs when two events which can occur together or alone are seen more likely to happen in combination than isolation. This usually happens when it is easier to imagine two events occurring in a combination than occurring alone. It is a formal fallacy that occurs when it is supposed that

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    anon AP English Logical Fallacies Example 1: Your family is crazy. Therefore you are crazy. This is an example of the logical fallacy‚ hasty generalizations. There is a interpretation of misleading information present within this statement. The arguer draws to a conclusion of insufficient evidence that suggests a person being crazy because his or her family is crazy. This is a false settlement of opinion and judgment. A person can’t inherit a duplicate personality because each person is

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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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    is hired to protect and serve‚ questions every move made to make sure corruption is not taking place. It does not take long for a new recruit to accept that free cup of coffee or half price meal which in turn can lead to bigger things. Slippery Slope The slippery slope hypothesis is the idea that corruption starts with a tiny gratuity like a free or discounted cup of coffee and then rolls downhill to bigger things and eventually grows into crime for profit. An example of the

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    race or distract from Vietnam‚ put Neil Armstrong under lights on a secret set somewhere in the desert. Despite theorists’ claims that man never landed on the moon‚ their supposed evidence contain black and white fallacy‚ circular reasoning‚ non sequitur fallacy‚ and straw man fallacies. Scientists have proven that these claims are invalid with explanations of the discrepancies that theorists have failed to acknowledge. Conspiracy theorists have pointed out that when the first moon landing was

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    concept that will be thoroughly analyzed and discussed is the gambler’s fallacy‚ and how it corresponds with the study conducted by Roney and Trick (2003). As stated by in the textbook‚ “The gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if an event has not occurred for a while‚ then it is more likely‚ by the “law of averages‚” to occur in the near future” (Anderson‚ 2015‚ p.269). Therefore‚ an individual subjected to the gambler’s fallacy will believe that the next coin toss will land on heads if the previous

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    and by doing so we can think critically without our bias ideas or opinions in a situation. * What are fallacies? How are fallacies used in written‚ oral‚ and visual arguments? What might you do to avoid fallacies in your thinking? Fallacies are defined as a mistaken belief and based on an illogical argument. Fallacies are used in many things such as what we see or hear. Fallacies are glorified fabrications of the truth. They are used in writing to get the reader focused on the topic without

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