[Student Name] [Instructor Name] [Course Name] [Date] Identifying Logical Fallacies * Ad Hominem It is a Latin phrase which is described as an attack on the person rather than focusing on the argument. For example: You should not listen to Professor Miller’s arguments for faculty salary increase. The only reason he is arguing for a pay raise is because he himself will benefit from it (Van Vleet 15). In this example, it is clear that the speaker attacks Professor Miller personally rather
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EN1420: Module 3 Identifying, Organizing, and Analyzing Your Sources Exercise 3.1 Identify the Logical Fallacies Each statement below contains a logical fallacy. Identify the fallacy and briefly explain, in one or two sentences, why it is an error in reasoning. 1. Mabel is not qualified to lead the school board because she used to drink liquor in her 20s. 2. A child can be either an athlete or a good student. 3. Any change in health care will lead to socialism; we don’t want to live in a
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Analyzing Your Sources Exercise 3.1: Identify the Logical Fallacies Each statement below contains a logical fallacy. Identify the fallacy and briefly explain, in one or two sentences, why it is an error in reasoning. 1. 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. One of the most common fallacies, it is a direct attack on a person's character rather
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Career Plan Building Activity and Competencies and Career Interest Profilers Crystal A. Naquin University of Phoenix BCOM 275 November 6, 2013 Virginia Carter Looking over the completed career interests’ profiler and competencies assessments, it helped me gain a better understanding of my competencies and how I apply them to a business setting. With the career interests’ profiler, it very much already told me what I already knew but more of a deeper understanding. What I do appreciate after
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PAPER FORMAT, PHIL 1300, with Piers Norris Turner Final paper instructions: Below is the paper format for your final papers—which I hope will help you all write successful papers. You may select any argument from the authors or class discussion up to the paper deadline. It need not be an author’s central argument, but any argument that struck you as true or false but which you thought needed further defense or further criticism. The point is to take an argumentative stand—that is, commit to a
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Associate Level Material Assumptions and Fallacies Write a 150- to 200-word response to each of the following sets of questions: • What are assumptions? How do you think assumptions might interfere with critical thinking? What might you do to avoid making assumptions in your thinking? Assumptions are beliefs or ideas of something that have not been proven to be true, or have no proof of evidence. Assumptions can also be a part of our belief system that we do not question, or that
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a variety of logical fallacies and propaganda techniques that “help shape our attitudes on a thousand subjects”. She also pointedly reminds readers not to presume we are immune to propaganda. Fallacy is defined as a mistaken belief. Appeal to fear fallacy or Argumentum in Terrorem is a
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question we are thinking or talking about. What are fallacies? How are fallacies used in written, oral, and visual arguments? A fallacy is a term that is derived from Latin words which mean to deceive or to be deceptive. A fallacy is basically a flaw in the logic reasoning that is being given, whether it is an argument or an answer someone is giving, where the evidence does not match what is being said. Most people will use fallacies to help support an argument, if they cannot find actual
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Assumptions and Fallacies Robin Combs HUM/111 August 9, 2013 Alicia Carter-Watts Assumptions and Fallacies * Assumptions are when something is taken for granted. When assumptions are made the facts are sometimes overlooked. Unfortunately, assumptions are often incorrect, and can cause huge misunderstandings or ever hurt others feelings. By assuming something, the thought process is interrupted, leaving the thinker short. When one assumes answers to their questions, or problems they no
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Assumptions and Fallacies Malaea Sauvao HUM/111 August 12, 2012 Maureen Frye Assumptions and Fallacies Assumptions are our beliefs that may or may not be true. I think when we made assumptions we are basically more like guessing instead of researching the information if it is based on facts or more like our own beliefs. This is where assumptions get interfere with critical thinking because it will become a wall that blocks us from evaluating a situation or problem and issues from every
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