CRITICAL THINKING PSU LOGICAL FALLACIES Ad hominem or ATTACKING THE PERSON. Attacking the arguer rather than his/her argument. Example: John’s objections to capital punishment carry no weight since he is a convicted felon. Note: Saying something negative about someone is not automatically ad hominem. If a person (politician for example) is the issue‚ then it is not a fallacy to criticize him/her. Ad ignorantium or APPEAL TO IGNORANCE. Arguing on the basis of what is not known and cannot be
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Escamilla1 Mrs.Hollie ELD 3 28 August‚ 2010 Examples of how people make there own decsions in the story Thank You Ma’m some examples of how roger and Mrs.Jones made their own decsions.Some exsamples of how the two main charecters is in the beginnig is when roger tryed to steal the old lady purse but the lady was confident and being assertive.The reason roger tryed to steal the purse is because he wanted to buy some blue suede shoes the other reason he did that was because he
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cause of the bias or is it reflective of the preexisting bias that the user holds? There are those who believe that the language that we use in day-to-day conversation is biased in and of itself. They feel that the term <I>mailman</I>‚ for example‚ is one that excludes women mail carriers. Then there are those who feel that language is a reflection of the prejudices that people have within themselves. That is to say that the words that people choose to use in conversation denote the bias that they harbor
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Thank You Speech Let me begin by saying I am simply speechless. This is just amazing! I am completely overwhelmed with this honor. Thank you all so much. Ever since I began to get serious about my music‚ to win‚ or even be nominated for‚ a Grammy seemed like such an unobtainable achievement. Which is why I cannot believe that I am standing here receiving this award‚ and not just any award‚ but the Grammy for Best New Artist. This is every new musicians dream‚ and I’m living it! So‚ for
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luddite fallacy is a common‚ flawed belief‚ the job-market’s ability to adapt‚ and its stimulating effect on the economy. Some work to live‚ while others live to work. Throughout the course of history‚ it is seen that humans have developed tools to aid them in working less. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution‚ textile-workers feared their jobs would be replaced by textile machines. There
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Abner Sanger and Matthew Patten Abner Sanger and Matthew Patten are men who lived during the Revolution. Sanger was from Keene and Patten was from Bedford. Sanger was a Tory farmer and Patten was a surveyor and a Patriot farmer. Sanger and Patten had different experienced. Both men had their reasons for getting involved in the American Revolution. Sanger read a lot of Edmund Burke’s and John Locke’s works. Burke was a member of the British Parliament. He urged conciliation to American
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about the fallacies of logic so that Polly would be the perfect fit for the main character’s standards for a wife. It took him a night to make a perfect girl. And after that intellectual date‚ he decided to make their next dates romantic. After five nights‚ he finally had the courage to tell Polly his feelings that he loved him but he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words‚ that is‚ in a way that she make use of the fallacies. He told her that he doesn’t have to apply the fallacies all the
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher is the first woman to have held the office of prime minister in Great Britain. She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham‚ Lincolnshire and educated at the University of Oxford‚ where she earned degrees in chemistry. After graduation she worked as a research chemist from 1947 to 1951. She married Denis Thatcher in 1951‚ and in 1953‚ having studied for the bar‚ she became a tax lawyer. Thatcher joined the Conservative party‚ and was elected to the House of Commons
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Fallacies in an Argument The essay “ Death” written by an anonymous author; presented in the text Read‚ Reason‚ Write published in the year 2008‚ is an example of a fallacious argument. In “Death” the author endorses the death penalty as a viable option for New York. This essay was written as a rebuttal to the editorial titled “New York on the Brink” that was posted in the Washington post it suggested that New York should not advocate the death penalty as law. The author argues that
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informal fallacies that can be discussed but I have chosen to speak of Bifurcation‚ and the Red Herring Fallacy. Bifurcation is a fallacy in which you are given a situation and a choice to make. It tries to let one feel as though it is either of those options but in reality there could be many more. In a sense it is like not telling the complete truth. You don’t really lie because you didn’t actually give a false choice or statement‚ but you didn’t really give all of the information you could have
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