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    Rational Thinking & Creative Ideas Erroneous Reasoning: Fallacies 1. Fallacies are simply mistakes or defects that occur in arguments. They are incorrect inferences. Fallacious arguments may superficially be persuasive‚ but logically incorrect. Fallacies can be committed in many ways‚ but usually they involve either a mistake in reasoning or creation of some illusion that make a bad argument appear good. Understanding fallacies and knowing why some inferences are incorrect could help us to

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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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    I. Fallacies A. What are Fallacies B. Bandwagon Fallacy C. Either – Or Fallacy A fallacy is an error in reasoning in which the evidence given for the conclusion does not provide the needed degree of support. Fallacies are defects that weaken the speaker’s arguments when trying to persuade an audience while speaking. By preparing yourself to look for fallacies in your own and others’ writing you can strengthen your ability to avoid using fallacies. There are two important things to know about

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    | | | | Fallacy Assignment The article that I chose for my fallacy assignment is: “Arrest Everybody” by Jacob Sullivan. This article is an editorial article discussing Arizona’s immigration reform law. The article is addressing the specific law that requires police to investigate the immigration status of people they encounter during their daily police duties. Sullivan is arguing that Arizona’s new law is encouraging police to imitate or emulate other officers

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    English 1C 05 June 2015 The Weakness in Fallacies Fallacies are land minds hidden beneath a flatbed of language. They appear hidden to the eye that lacks the knowledge about them. Most go by undetected and cloaked. We experience them everyday and a lot of them go through our heads because we are unaware of them. Depending on how elaborate the fallacy is‚ it can potentially sway people to a certain decision‚ either mundane or crucial. Identifying fallacies are important because you can develop the

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    3/4/12 Fallacies I’ve Used I have use many fallacies on a daily basis‚ but I have noticed that the fallacies I use the most are the appeal to bandwagon‚ poisoning the well‚ and apples and oranges. I appeal to bandwagon by always using peer pressure whenever I try to convince people to do things. For example during my senior year in high school‚ the upcoming senior ditch day was coming up and I tried to convince my friends to skip the day with me. To convince them‚ I said that most seniors in our

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    Logical Fallacies Response 1. Hasty Generalization: My father smoked four packs of cigarettes a day since age fourteen‚ and lived until age sixty-nine. Therefore‚ smoking really can’t be that bad for you. Explanation: This is a clear example of a hasty generalization. The writer concludes that smoking is universally not bad just because his or her father is still alive although he smokes a lot. The health risk of smoking cannot be claimed based on the case study of one person. It is very unreasonable

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    According to Gary Curtis‚ a logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. (Curtis‚ 2012) There are‚ at least‚ ten of them that we know of. Many dieting commercials‚ like Nutri-System‚ can lay claim to a few of them. I believe that Nutri-System uses appeal to popularity and appeal to emotion. The appeal to popularity comes from the use of Jennifer Hudson and Marie Osmond touting them and the appeal to emotion comes from the need of obese women to lose weight. The fallacy comes in because a normal woman

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    Fallacies in Advertising According to Bassham et al. (2002)‚ a logical fallacy is “an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning” (p. 140). There are two types of logical fallaciesfallacies of relevance‚ and fallacies of insufficient evidence. Fallacies of relevance happen when the premises are not logically relevant to the conclusion. Fallacies of insufficient evidence occur when the premises do not provide sufficient evidence to support the conclusion. Though there are several logical fallacies

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    Logical Fallacies Fallacies of Relevance Ad Hominem  Refers to a personal attack on an arguer’s reputation or character rather than the argument itself.  Usually seen in political debates  Example: Teddy Roosevelt’s attacks on William Howard Taft’s obesity. Attacking the Motive  Refers to focusing on an attack against an arguer’s supposed motivation or bias rather than focusing on the argument itself.  Usually points to how the arguer would benefit from his own argument.  Example: Flower

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