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| Is a defect in an argument that affects more than just the false premises. |
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is only in inductive arguments that have identifiable forms.
"These fallacies consist in something other than." |
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| Is only detected by examining content. This is also when there are false premises alone. |
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Fallacy of relevance:
Appeal of Force is when a fallacy |
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| Hits you over the head until you get it |
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Fallacy of relevance:
Appeal to Pity |
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| Appear all the time, makes your pity overrule your common sense. |
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Fallacy of relevance:
Appeal to the people |
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| There are direct and indirect forms of this. It is when a appeal is drawn by Bandwagon, Vanity, or Snobbery. |
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Fallacy of relevance:
Argument against Person |
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| Politics. This is tactic that instead of responding with a solution, an attack is made on the other party. |
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Fallacy of relevance:
Accident |
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General rule applied to a specific case that it was not intended to cover. Even constitutionally cleared rights do not warrant some of the outcomes:
EX: Yelling fire in a public theater, you have freedom of speech yes, but that does not warrant the outcome that your freedom of speech caused. You will not be arrested for yelling fire, but for the consequences of that action. |
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| Indirect forms of Fallacy are: |
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Bandwagon (Everyone is doing it)
Appeal to Vanity
Appeal to snobbery |
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| discredit via circumstance |
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| Hypocrite. How dare you argue that I stop doing this, when you are doing it yourself?! |
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P1 gives an argument
p2 distorts that argument and reveals what's wrong with it.
C therefore, they distort it so much that they make it an easy target.
For example: You label that war is a problem, but then talk about what is wrong with it to the point that it is not arguable, and therefore you have weakened it. |
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| Ignoratio Elench Missing the Point is when the |
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P's are irrelevant to the conclusion.
EX: P supports one conclusion but then a different conclusion is drawn. Pg 131 |
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| Diverts the attention away from the reader onto something else. |
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| Fallacies of weak inductions occur because |
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| the connection between P's and C is not strong enough to support the Conclusion. |
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| Appeal to Unqualified Authority is an |
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| inductive argument in which an arguer cites the authority or testimony of another person to support a conclusion, BUT THAT AUTHORITY LACKS CREDABILITY. |
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Fallacy:
Appeal to Ignorance |
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| When the premises state that nothing has been proved one way or another, the conclusion makes a confident that, and the argument commits an appeal to ignorance. |
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Which fallacy is this making?
People have been trying for centuries to provide conclusive evidence that of astrology and has continued to come up empty handed, therefore, we must accept that astrology is non-sense. |
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Appeal to ignorance
Because the conclusion commits the same fallacy. |
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Fallacy:
Hasty Generalization |
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| occurs when there are reasonable likelihood that the sample is not representative of the group. This likelihood arises if the sample is either too small or not randomly selected. |
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| occurs whenever the link between P and C depend on some imagined casual connection that probably does not exist. |
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| a variety of false cause fallacy; it occurs when the C rests on an alleged chain reaction and there is not sufficient reasoning to think that the chain reaction will actually take place. |
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| is committed when the analogy is not strong enough to support the conclusion. |
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| When there is a shift between C and P. |
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| When the C depends on a fact that a word or a phrase is used in two diff senses. |
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| when someone misinterprets an ambiguous statement and draws a Conclusion based on that interpretation |
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| Fallacy of Grammatical Analogy |
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| is deceptive similarity in linguistic structure. |
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| C depends on erroneous transfer of an attribute from the "PARTS OF THE WHOLE" |
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| C depends on erroneous transfer of an attribute from the "WHOLE TO PARTS" |
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Fallacy:
in ordinary language |
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| means to be alert to what is being said. |
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