Yevgenia Dashtoyan PHIL-201 08.10.2013 Unit 3 Individual Project Pseudo-questions: Asking a question based on a false premise. "Why does the Obama administration want to punish poor people?" A political pundit might ask this question about the proposed health care plan in which Americans will be required to buy insurance. Equivocation: Relying on two meanings of a word to make your point; changing the meaning partway through the argument. "I’m not prejudiced.
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government mandated suffering. This claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation. In a society as obsessed with the costs of health care and the principle of utility‚ the dangers of the slippery slope are far from fantasy. Assisted suicide is like a half-way house‚ or a stop on the way to other forms of direct euthanasia. If terminating life is a benefit‚ the reasoning goes‚ why should euthanasia be limited only to those who can give consent
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Jennifer Gleason AIU PHIL201-1203A-08 Introduction to Philosophy Sunday‚ June 24‚ 2012 Logical fallacies My whole paper will be over the logical fallacies and the examples I had made for each one. Now this all have to do with some kind of philosophy terms and what they truly mean but in my own words and examples. 1. Mere Assertion- Mere Assertion is when someone doesn’t want to give up an argument even known they can’t prove their right with no evidence. * Example: My daughter
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Name: Roechell Persuasive Speaking Assignment - 20 points total Explain wheather each statement below deals primarily with a question of fact‚ a question of value‚ or a question of policy. (10 piont) Question of fact - addresses a question about the truth or falsity of an assertion -Who will win the National Championship this year? - Does recycling paper really make a difference? - Did the suspect in question commit the crime? Question of policy - addresses a question about the
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Why should Euthanasia be legalized? Those in favour of euthanasia argue that a civilized society should allow people to die in dignity and without pain‚ and should allow others to help them do so if they cannot manage it on their own. They say that our bodies are our own‚ and we should be allowed to do what we want with them. So it’s wrong to make anyone live longer than they want. In fact making people go on living when they don’t want to violates their personal freedom and human rights. It’s
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white film. The whole movie was about the loyalty of a town marshal named Kane and the betrayal of the town. After watching High Noon‚ there were a lot of fallacies that were depicted through out the movie such as begging the question‚ ad hominem‚ slippery slope‚ and Inconsistency. The characters in the movie do a great job at portraying each of these fallacies. At the beginning of the movie‚ as Kane and Amy are riding away for their honeymoon‚ Kane stops the prairie and claims that he has to go back
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does not mean their marriage should be illegal. The government cannot prevent people of the same sex from falling in love. Same sex marriage should be legalized universally in the United States. Gay marriage could potentially lead down a "slippery slope” ending with giving people in polygamous‚ incestuous‚ bestial‚ and other nontraditional relationships the right to marry (2). There is no such thing as traditional marriage. Given the prevalence of modern and ancient examples of family arrangements
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the definition the affirmative team presented. As the first speaker‚ I‚ Sheryl George will be discussing the employment and educational problems we would in face in Australia if youth wages were abolished‚ I will also be speaking about the slippery slope of changing laws that affect young people. Our second speaker‚ Jeane‚ will speak about the economic effects of abolishing youth wages and the dangerous circumstances young people may be put into in to by employees seeking to exploit them. Our
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audience 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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Fallacies and Generalizations Posted by John Smith on March 30‚ 2011 Fallacies and generalizations of complex topics is common in today’s high-pace society. Even before the era of 24/7 news‚ it was often easier to persuade people to an action if the terms were simplified. Unfortunately‚ this simplification often mires debates‚ and those who have no cost to being wrong often burden others with the cost of making a wrong decision. As I have been reading Economic Facts and Fallacies (by Sowell)
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