Logical Fallacies Defined Jamie Osborne American InterContinental University Abstract Fallacies can be viewed as a mistake or error. There are many different fallacies with different meanings for each. The following paper will discuss 9 logical fallacies. The paper will also include definitions for each of the 9 fallacies as well as examples of being applied to real life scenarios. Logical Fallacies defined Everyone has gotten into an argument with someone once or twice in their
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and verbal fallacies. In figuring out a good speech, the contestants’ speeches are recorded and transcribed to be analyzed whether they have met the quality of a good speech which are: (1) includes all of the main components of argument and (2) fallacies free. Since the speech contestants are still in the first semester, they have limited knowledge on argument components and verbal fallacies. Therefore, the contestants sometimes miss the argument components and make no verbal fallacies in their speech
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CheckPoint: Identifying Fallacies 2. Letter to the editor: “Andrea Keene’s selective morality is once again showing through in her July 15 letter. This time she expresses her abhorrence of abortion. But how we see only what we choose to see! I wonder if any of the anti-abortionists have considered the widespread use of fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if they have, why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs frequently results in multiple
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One of such is known as the prosecutor’s fallacy. Statistical Consultants Ltd. (2010), stated “prosecutor’s fallacies (with respect to statistics) are fallacies of statistical reasoning that can result and have resulted in miscarriages of justice,” and gave the following example of DNA evidence presented: “Let’s say that a crime scene DNA sample is compared against a database of 20,000 men. The DNA sample matches the profile of one of the men, and that man is accused of the crime. At the trial it
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Logical Fallacies Fallacies are all around us. We see fallacies on the television, newspapers, and radio. People around the world experience logical fallacies on almost a daily basis. A fallacy is defined as “errors or flaws in reasoning” (Axelrod and Cooper 620).Fallacies used in advertisements are; band wagon, begging the question, confusing chronology with casualty, either-or reasoning, equivocating, failing to accept the burden of proof, false analogy, hasty generalization, overreliance
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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 I don’t care if she is the top psychiatrist in the state! Her theory on sibling rivalry is extreme. How can we believe anything she says if she subscribes to theories of that nature? Wishful thinking Sure, I’ve heard that it’s better to not eat cheeseburgers every day, but it’s
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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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Generalization: A sweeping generalization is a wide range assumption that does not apply to all cases or situations. Example: Majority of all hip-hop artists are black, so therefore all black people love hip-hop. Slippery Slope: A slippery slope fallacy refers a
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LOGICAL FALLACY | DEFINITION | EXAMPLE | Ad Hominem | Attacking the character of the arguer rather than the argument | “Mary has no credibility on the smoking ban issue, because she was once a smoker herself” | Bandwagon (Ad Populum) | Suggesting that a person should agree to something because it is popular | “Over one thousand people have decided to sign up, so you should too” | Begging the Question | Using circular reasoning to prove a conclusion | “Conservatives believe in hard work and
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Discussion Board Slippery slope fallacy: My definition of this fallacy is that it occurs when an individual wrongly assumes that to forbid a reason of an action will inevitably lead to the occurrence of further related and other undesirable events. It is equally when a relatively insignificant first event, is suggested to lead to a more significant event. Which would, in turn, leads to another important event, and so on..., until some ultimate, important event is achieved. Thus, I shall conclude
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