Appendix C Categorizing Fallacies Categorize each fallacy statement by copying and pasting it into the text box adjacent to its matching fallacy type. Fallacy Statements |Fallacy Type |Fallacy Statement | |Ad hominem/genetic |3. From a study group member: “I just don’t get it. One minute she says she’s coming, and| | |then the next, she calls to cancel. I wonder
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because they are happy and he loves her very much. Circular Reasoning: A circular reasoning is when the argument is the same as the resolution. Example: Mother- “This is what is best for you and I know what is best for you.” Ad Hominem: The term Ad Hominem is the Latin translation for “against the person”. It means when a claim during an argument, that is a personal attack or allegation and is not logical and is irrelevant. Example: “President Obama held a press conference to talk about
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Mabel is not qualified to lead the school board because she used to drink liquor in her 20s. * Ad hominem: committed by attacking the person who's making an argument, rather than the argument itself. Its common fallacies, it’s a direct attack on someone’s character rather than focusing on his/her arguments. It states that Mabel used to drink that why she is not qualified if a person attack. 2. A child can be either an athlete or a good student. * Either/ or reduces several other alternatives
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|Example #1 | |Example: |Claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant |Why should your views on welfare reform matter when we all know | |Ad Hominem |fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or |that your parents make a lot of money. | | |argument
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Speaking Circuit” is written more like an expose of Dowd than an actual objective article showing an opposing view. Two logical fallacies Mr. Strupp touches on in his article are Red Herring and also Ad hominem. This both make this article unfairly biased and take away from whatever the point of Ms. Dowd’s article was, no matter how inflammatory. The Ad hominem fallacy comes from several statements Strupp makes in his article. He lists her speaking arrangement fees within the first several paragraphs
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is written by Roger Pol. In this paper I will attempt to disprove Pol’s (2011) article, “China Is Not the Biggest Threat to American Manufacturing”, by scrutinizing the reliability, credibility, and validity of the author and underlining logical fallacies. Providing facts from credible sources to validate that outsourcing by large corporations are causing damage to the American economy, not laws designed to protect employees and the environment. Facts and Credibility The opposing viewpoint article
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Fallacies Assignment BCOM/275 Two wrongs make a right is a type of fallacy when one person does something wrong to another, and the recipient, in turn, does something equally wrong back to the original deliverer. In doing so, the recipient doing the second wrong, believe they are justified in doing so because they are getting even or, making the situation right in their own mind. Obviously, in the end, this doesn't make anything right. Instead you would simply have two wrongs committed, often
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a big possibility too because marijuana has tar and that affects your lungs in a negative way. Again, I believe marijuana should be classified as a Schedule I drug because it meets all the criteria to be considered a Schedule I drug. One of the fallacies I will be using is “false dilemma”. False dilemma occurs when you give the opposition only two choices of what they can do, when in fact, there other alternatives available. If marijuana isn’t considered a Schedule I drug, I believe many more people
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When looking at the one stereotype politicians is the ad hominem fallacy. The ad hominem fallacy is “the confusion between the qualities of the person making a claim and the qualities in the claim itself” (Moore & Parker, pg 173). Politicians are thought of as self-serving, hypocritical and dishonest con-artist. During a political campaign we see on the news how one attacks their opponents. The personal attack ad hominem fallacy is attacking another with negative comment. During campaigning
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especially prescription terms 5. motto 6. prefix 7. root 8. root 9. author 10. title of the above author’s work week 1 1. beati pacifici “Blessed are the peace makers.” 2. A.D. (Anno Domini) “in the year of our Lord” 3. ad hoc (for this purpose) an ad hoc committee is established to complete a certain task; once the task is complete, it is disbanded 4. insomnia (in) not + somnus (sleep) = sleeplessness 5. “Audemus iura nostra defendere.” “We dare defend our rights.”
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