cited? 5. What assumptions are underlying any claims being made? (at least 3 + assumptions) 6. Is the language that is being used loaded or slanted in any way? (at least 3 +) 7. Are there any logical fallacies (pp. 396-399) in the argument? (you need to find at least 6+ fallacies). You need to identify which sentences in the story are fallacies and specify which fallacy (or fallacies) they violate. For example: “If we cut down on the number of legacy admissions, what would happen
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Fabian Salazar Phil.1301 8:00-9:30 TuThurs Prof. Smith Free Will Free will can be perceived as a quality one is born with no matter what your background is. But then again what is free will? And do we all have it? This strikes a huge argument with many outlooks on either the possibility of having free will or the possibility of not having free will. Ranging from Determinists such as Albert Einstein and Libertarians such as John Locke to everyday people such as me who truly believe that we
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Rising up from failures and avoiding it III. How can one rise up from those failures? How can one avoid it? Failing in college could be frustrating and sometimes we lose our self - confidence by telling ourselves that we are not intelligent and we are often discouraged. According to Matthew Bass, “Failure is simply a stepping-stone on your way to success” (Matthew Bass). Failing is never a hindrance for our success. It may let us down and make us hopeless at first, but if we try again and come
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supporting a candidate for presidency. In the paper I tried to convince people to vote for that candidate. I compared and contrasted my candidate with one of her opponents. I focused on making her opponent look bad. My argument is full of logical fallacies; therefore it is not a good argument. One logical fallacy in my paper is “He talks about reducing taxes, but how can we listen when we know he cheated on his wife with three different women”. I distract the readers from his plan to lower taxes with
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the rest of his argument by stating a general belief that, suffering and death from a lack of food, shelter and medical assistance is a bad thing.
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RECONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS Deductive and Inductive Here we are to learn the techniques for PART I, Making a Critique- i.e., argument reconstruction, by doing the following “steps”: 1. Read the discourse; 2. Number and Bracket arguments; 3. Write an Index of Claims; and 4. Tree-Diagram the arguments. What is critiquing? Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913 – 1999) - the creator of Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) following a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational
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be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support. Fallacy is the mistake in information which misleads the reasoning Fallacies are of two types and they are inductive fallacy and deductive fallacy. Inductive fallacies are such kind of fallacies which is related to reaching the conclusion from very little or weak evidences. In other words, an inductive argument is an argument such that the premises provide (or
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a letter of complaint | - Complete your letter of complaint- Familiarize yourself with APA style by reading pgs. 200-216 and 220-222 in Essay Essentials- Read “Making the Argument” from the Essay Essentials website: click here. | Week 716/10 | - Open book quiz: APA Style- Good Arguments VS Bad Arguments- Organizing an argument; making a reverse outline- Selecting debate groups and begin debate prep | - Complete your assigned role for the debate (researching or speech writing) | INTERSESSION
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Title Examining Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mindmap. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Overgeneralization Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service - 'Do you want fries with that?': Irrational Appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: Overgeneralization Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed
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effects the world around us. These essays depict the emotional power that sports have on people. While reading the essay “The Roar of the Crowd” you cannot help but picture an avid sports fan throwing down the essay with bitter disgust, because the arguments that it presents. Comparing sports fans that “root, root, root” for their favorite team to that of the activity of “pigs in the mud”. Even if you are an extreme sports lover and paint your face and pay top dollar just to be a few more inches closer
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