Questions Rhetorical devices I‚ rhetorical devices II‚ rhetorical devices III‚ rhetorical devices IV‚ and proof surrogates and repetition Fallacies that involve appeals to emotion‚ some 100% Score: 15 / 15 non-emotion-based 10 11 12 13 14 15 fallacies‚ and two wrongs make a right The ad hominem fallacy‚ the genetic fallacy‚ straw man‚ false dilemma‚ slippery slope‚ misplacing 100% the burden of proof‚ and begging the question Concept: The stages of decision making Mastery 100% Questions
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Argument from force Rationalization Peer Pressure No Fallacy Points Received: 0 of 1 Comments: Question 2. Question : “If I give this homeless person a dollar then I’ll have to give the next guy a dollar and so forth … I’ll end up broke!” Student Answer: Ad hominem Slippery slope Burden of Proof False Dilemma No Fallacy Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 3. Question :
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1.Slippery Slope The first fallacy is an example of a Slippery Slope (Ad Nauseam or Ad Absurdum). A Slippery slope is when someone’s course of action leads to something unrealistic or outrageous. The character in Twelve Angry Men who committed this fallacy was Yankee. Yankee said “Suppose this whole building fell on my head. You can suppose anything.” Yankee’s claim was a Slippery Slope because it created a domino effect in the movie‚ because the Architect supposes the jurors could have been wrong
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Masha‚ Felicia English 1C Professor N. Guimaraes Essay #1 09-18-2014 Logical Fallacies in “Why We Crave Horror Movies” By Stephan King Last‚ night I was alone by myself‚ with no one to talk to or cook dinner for. I was alone and bored at the same time. Well‚ I decided to watch a horror film on Netflix. I try not to go to sleep during
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the airport and people passing by without helping him‚ which made the boy look confused and caused him to cry in the end. Due to that scene‚ the Anti-Smoking commercial convinces adults and smokers to stop smoking through persuasive techniques and fallacies. All commercials have a specific audience in order to promote the audience even better. The anti-smoking audience has one specific audience. Smokers that are dying and that has children creates the first target audience. A mother
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conclusion could still be false. If the argument is valid‚ no counterexample is possible. 5. What is the Ad Hominem fallacy? This is an argument that attacks the person rather than the substance of the persons argument. 6. What is the slippery slope fallacy? The slippery slope fallacy has the form : x could possibly be abused ‚ therefore‚ we should not allow x. 7. What is the fallacy
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does the definition is a persuasive definition and sets the stage for a false argument. Also‚ emotionally charged language includes not only words that generate emotions but also words that suppress them‚ such as euphemisms. First‚ the Straw Man Fallacy misrepresents another person’s argument in order to one’s argument seem stronger. Also a person will deliberately not state specific information to falsify their argument and weaken the other person’s argument. For example‚ one person attacks another
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or the pharmaceutical companies will continue to reap huge profits. Therefore‚ price controls must be imposed‚ because we cannot tolerate these huge profits any longer. Answer Selected Answer: Either/Or fallacy Correct Answer: Either/Or fallacy Question 3 5 out of 5 points Correct Raising a child is like growing a tree. Sometimes violent things‚ such as cutting off branches‚ have to be done to force the tree to grow straight. Similarly
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Clinton’s presidency. As “President’s Address to the Nation” is a speech asking everybody to support the troops to keep fighting in Iraq‚ I‚ as an audience‚ am not persuaded at all because of his illogical fallacy in the arguments. In this essay‚ I will analyze how and what are the illogical fallacies he uses in the speech. The “President’s address to the Nation” is a claim of policy. President Bush is asking people to support his policy that “we” have to keep fighting the war “until either we or
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doesn’t know because to them the person’s appearance is appealing. This is what we would call a false appeal to authority. Second‚ they commit the slippery slope fallacy. There is a sequence of events they show and explain; ask‚ believe‚ and receive. Their claim is that if you follow these steps you will get whatever you want. The slippery slope fallacy is when small actions lead to something extreme. Although these actions might have worked for one person‚ it doesn’t mean that they will for everyone
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