clearly in the distance. But Kunstler says documents show a storm had swept in that night‚ bringing freezing rain‚ hail and snow that would have cut the visibility.” (LA Times Staff 8) A Attitude: Critical‚ formal‚ judgemental. F Fallacy: Hasty Generalization “The most obvious is that Washington would not have used the earliest Stars-and-Stripes flag that appears in the Leutze work; it wasn’t adopted until 1777.” (LA Times Staff 6) E Ethos: The LA Times is
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there were no nuclear weapons. (One has nothing to do with the other.) Over-generalization: Making sweeping statements that are so general they over-simplify reality. In other words‚ they are statements making assumptions about a whole group based on a sample that is just too small or not at all typical. Stereotypes are often based on over-generalizations (also called hasty generalizations). Examples of over-generalizations: * Wealthy people are snobs. * Three senior citizens died after
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that Santa Clause exists; we may as well stop trying and accept the truth: there is no Santa Clause. L. Ad ignorantium 5. Alicia started gaining more weight than ever when she started taking Slimdown; the stuff must be fattening! J. Hasty generalization 6. No sensible person would support the Equal Rights Amendment. If it were to pass‚ we would have women in combat and unisex bathrooms. Eventually‚ we would not be able to tell women from men! I. Black and white (slippery slope) 7
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baculum) The argument against person (ad hominem) Irrelevant Conclusion • Fallacies of Defective Induction – weak premises • • • • The argument from ignorance (ad ignorantiam) The appeal to inappropriate authority (ad vericundiam) False Cause Hasty Generalization MATERIAL FALLACIES • Fallacies of Presumption – too much assumption in the premises • Accident • Complex question • Begging the question • Straw – Man Fallacy Fallacy of Relevance • The appeal to populace (ad populum) – a diversion from
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improper comparison between surgery and medicine and decreases Wolf’s credibility. Wolf paints all cosmetic surgery as turning “woman-made women...into man-made women” (220). This statement is a hasty generalization‚ and assumes that all surgeons than men and all patients are women. This hasty generalization lacks evidence and lowers Wolf’s credibility even
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and how she was the wrong person for this position. Corallo starts off stating how “we should be so critical of a pop star that probably has no idea of the origins of the Star Spangled Banner.” (par. 2) This statement would be considered a hasty generalization by Corallo. It is not in all cases
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some members of a group to a generalization about the entire group. The entire group is called the target group; the observed members of the group‚ the sample; and the group characteristics we’re interested in‚ the relevant property. An enumerative induction can fail to be strong by having a sample that’s too small or not representative. When we draw a conclusion about a target group based on an inadequate sample size‚ we’re said to commit the error of hasty generalization. Opinion polls are enumerative
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to prove his case‚ Twain used hasty and sweeping generalizations. While comparing‚ and contrasting humans to animals‚ he hastily showed that man robs his fellow of his country taking possession of it time after time. He generalizes all men as he only points out the dark side that he has seen. He highlights that man can accumulate millions of dollars and yet continue to cheat the helpless out of more only to feed their appetite for more. This is a sweeping generalization that all men are greedy and
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Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich of Sáo Paulo University spearheaded a social psychology study in an attempt to delve deeper into the earlier research conducted in the 1940’s by Dr. Eagleson. Her hypothesis suggested that the socioeconomic group of a child’s parent would affect the name chosen for that child (Rabinovich‚ 1993). The theory is an interesting one‚ yet it is faulty. The argument presented is inductive‚ albeit a weak and uncogent inductive argument. There are several key issues with this study
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in all black are gothic. Not all people who are Gothic are sadistic and cold hearted. These hasty generalizations can hurt people in the long and short term. In a positive aspect‚ African American’s are stereotypes as being good basketball players. Well just because someone is African American does not mean they have a basketball court in their backyard or watch the game weekly. This type of generalization is not really negative and harmful to a person; however‚ this assumption is still not good.
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