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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Mary Morgan Yeatts 11 September 2013 Logical Fallacies editorial These days‚ a person hears a lot about legalizing marijuana and why it could be beneficial for our country‚ but people forget why it was illegalized in the first place. Marijuana is a drug. Drugs are addictive and deadly. If we legalize marijuana now‚ we’ll end up with a generation of reefer addicts who die by their mid-30s if they manage to escape being the victims of violent crime. Also‚ the people who use marijuana now despite
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A logical fallacy is a faulty reasoning used to persuade. It is always done on purpose and targets people’s ignorance and stupidity. Either/or Fallacy An either/ or fallacy is a complex issue reduced to only two alternatives‚ neither of which is acceptable. Reverend Parris quoted‚”There is either obedience or church will burn like hell is burning.” This is either/or fallacy because Proctor had just criticized Parris for his focuses on deeds and mortgages. Ad hominem(to the man) An ad hominem
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INFORMAL FALLACIES FALLACIES IN GENERAL A fallacy is a defect in an argument that consists in something other than the false premises alone. Fallacies are usually divided into two groups: formal and informal. A formal fallacy is one that may be identified by merely examining the form or structure of an argument. Informal fallaciesare those that can be detected only by examining the content of the argument. Informal fallacies can be further classified as Fallacies of Ambiguities‚ Relevance‚ and
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Charles Foster Kane campaigning for Governor‚ there were many examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and rhetorical devices. An example of political bias in his speech was when Kane said that “every straw vote‚ every independent poll shows that I’ll be elected”. This shows political bias because it is an opinion of Charles Foster Kane and there is not any supporting evidence to prove that what Kane says is the truth. Examples of fallacies present in this speech would be in the beginning of his speech where Kane
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A fallacy is incorrect reasoning in argumentation resulting in a misconception. By accident or design‚ fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor ‚ or take advantage of social relationships between people. Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical argument‚ making fallacies more difficult to diagnose. Also‚ the components of the fallacy may be spread out over separate arguments. A fallacy has a lot of forms 1 Fallacies
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LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE ………………….o0o…………………. LESSON PLAN Students: Group 5 Class : 12 C Instrutor: Ms. Vu An Nhu HO CHI MINH CITY – 08/2014 LESSON PLAN I. DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP OF LEARNERS There are 20 students in this group‚ 15 women and 5 men. Most of them are between 20 and 25 years old. This general English course is for intermediate level students. They can speak English but are not confident very much. Almost the students enter this course into improving their reading‚ speaking
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LIN 100—Marla Perkins‚ Ph.D. Fall 2012 While I’m at the Conference 1. Watch one of the following movies and write a short paragraph or list in which you note three things that you learned about language. E-mail me your paragraph/list on or before October 22 (marla.perkins@oswego.edu). • The King’s Speech (drama: about working through a speech impediment—phonetics/speech pathology/sociolinguistics) • The Gods Must Be Crazy (comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology)
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Lesson 8 Quality Management Welcome to Lesson 8‚ Supplier Quality Management. After completing this lesson‚ you will be able to: Understand the importance of supplier quality management. Recognize the factors which influence supply management’s role in managing supplier quality. Link the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) to supply management practices. Understand the principles of ISO 9000 and 14000. Develop the elements of a basic supplier quality manual. LESSON OVERVIEW Quality
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End of The Line Lesson Plan Day 1 Name: Amy Lomas Date: June 18-22‚ 2012 Standards: * AZ L.4.5 - Demonstrate understanding of figurative language‚ word relationships‚ and nuances in word meanings. * c. Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms). * AZ L.4.4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based of grade 4 reading and content‚
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