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Logical Fallacies
1. Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics
Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics means a fallacy of argument presenting an issue in terms of exaggerated ___________ or ____________.
Someone who uses this fallacy tries to create support for his or her idea by ____________.
Statement
Character executing fallacy
Meaning/Explanation
Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents heads on the pillow next to me, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” (The Crucible 1.20)
Abigail Williams
Abigail was trying to scare the girls into lying about what really happened. She said she would come to them at night and harm them if they confess to conjuring spirits. She knows that if she can threat them they won’t say a word about what happened. They would be too fearful of what would happened to them if they confessed.
2. Appeal to Ignorance
An appeal to ignorance is an argument for or __________ a proposition on the basis of a lack of ______________ against or for it.
Statement
Character executing fallacy
Meaning/Explanation
Martha Corey:“I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is”(The Crucible 3.83).
Hathorne:“How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?”(The Crucible 3.84).
Matha Corey and Hathorne
The Martha Corey and Hathorne argument is an example of Appeal to Ignorance. Martha Corey claims to be innocent to a witch, meaning that she does not know what a witch is. The fallacy occurs when Hathorne manipulates her statement with pointless evidence to prove that she in indeed a witch.
In conclusion, Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics is
1. Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics
Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics means a fallacy of argument presenting an issue in terms of exaggerated ___________ or ____________.
Someone who uses this fallacy tries to create support for his or her idea by ____________.
Statement
Character executing fallacy
Meaning/Explanation
Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents heads on the pillow next to me, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” (The Crucible 1.20)
Abigail Williams
Abigail was trying to scare the girls into lying about what really happened. She said she would come to them at night and harm them if they confess to conjuring spirits. She knows that if she can threat them they won’t say a word about what happened. They would be too fearful of what would happened to them if they confessed.
2. Appeal to Ignorance
An appeal to ignorance is an argument for or __________ a proposition on the basis of a lack of ______________ against or for it.
Statement
Character executing fallacy
Meaning/Explanation
Martha Corey:“I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is”(The Crucible 3.83).
Hathorne:“How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?”(The Crucible 3.84).
Matha Corey and Hathorne
The Martha Corey and Hathorne argument is an example of Appeal to Ignorance. Martha Corey claims to be innocent to a witch, meaning that she does not know what a witch is. The fallacy occurs when Hathorne manipulates her statement with pointless evidence to prove that she in indeed a witch.
In conclusion, Appeal to Fear/Scare Tactics is