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    Competency Definitions Adaptability Demonstrates flexibility during periods of change or innovation. Easily transitions to revised goals‚ deadlines‚ or expectations as a result of organizational constraints or changes to objectives. Seeks out environments where routine and monotony are minimized. Assists in the management of organizational change. Building Partnerships Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas‚ teams‚ departments

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    Types of Fallacies: * “Argument” from pity: when feeling sorry for someone drives us to a position on an unrelated matter * We have a job that needs doing; Helen can barely support her starving children and needs work desperately. But does Helen have the skills we need? We may not care if she does; and if we don’t‚ nobody can fault us for hiring her out of compassion. But feeling sorry for Helen may lead us to misjudge her skills or overestimate her abilities‚ and that is a mistake in

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    Bernasol‚ Cristine Dayonne P. Acts of FOOLISHNESS: FALLACIES The task of reaching their target audience and as well as adhering to the vast needs of their customers and all the people who rely to their market for consumption of basic needs have been one of the biggest challenges to the business industries today. Different companies from the diverse world of market today have been continuously tested on how they would effectively reach their desired market and also acquire more consumers

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    CHAPTER XIV Logical Empiricism There are many strange sentences that men use. Compare these two: (1) Wheat is a major crop in Kansas‚ and (2) the fountain of youth is located in Kansas. Each has a subject‚ a verb‚ and a predicate. The first sentence is regarded as true in a matter-of-fact way. The second one may bring a smile or wrinkle to your face. Why the two reactions? Why is one regarded as true and the other as fiction? How can we speak of the non-existent in the same way as

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    rhetorical strategies. For instance‚ the ad supplied with this review is full of rhetorical fallacies which would affect consumers to buy the manufacturer’s goods. The ad provided is a toothpaste ad that has three principal images going on to influence the buyer. Two of the images are phrases which promote the product and the other image are of an attractive woman using the toothpaste. These images contain fallacies which influence the average consumer without their knowing and are effective in getting

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    I found several videos that give good examples of logical fallacies. All the DirecTV commercials in this compilation are good examples of the slippery slope fallacy. Each commercial shows how having cable TV can lead to a chain of events that result in bad outcomes. These commercials used the slippery slope fallacy on purpose to entertain the audience. A slippery slope fallacy claims that once you make one choice‚ a chain of events will inevitably follow. The truth is that making the first choice

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    Fallacies and “Dirty Tricks” Identification The first person to try and categorize and systematically describe fallacies was Aristotle. He managed to identify thirteen different fallacies and divided them into two groups: Informal and Formal. The Informal Fallacy is hard to find because they can only be found and identified when you analyze the content of the argument. The Formal Fallacy is easy to identify because there is a defect to it and when you look at the logical formation of

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    pro-fracking and anti-fracking‚ respectively through a series of various logical fallacies. FrackNation efficiently refutes the claims of Gasland through the effective use of logical fallacies. The successful use

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    Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of logic circuits. If we translate a logic circuit’s function into symbolic (Boolean) form‚ and apply certain algebraic rules to the resulting equation to reduce the number of terms and/or arithmetic operations‚ the simplified equation may be translated back into circuit form for a logic circuit performing the same function with fewer components. If equivalent function may be achieved with fewer components‚ the result will be increased

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    Exercise Identify the fallacies in the following passages. A. The appeal to ignorance B. The appeal to inappropriate authority C. Argument against the person D. The appeal to emotion E. Irrelevant conclusion F. Complex Question G. False Cause H. Begging the question I. Accident J. Converse Accident 1. Brad Pitt is so cool because so many girls think he is. D‚ E‚ H 2. Einstein’s theories must be wrong because he was a very weird person. C‚ G 3. We should have imprisoned all the German and

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