The slippery slope fallacy states that one event must inevitably cause another. This type of claim does not have any logical reasoning. For example, if you make an exception for one person you have to make exceptions for everyone. The circular argument fallacy states that A is true because B is true and B is true because A is true. The claims are not logically proven to be true because their reliability cannot be determined. An example of a circular argument is, I am right because I said I'm right.
Ad Hominem was one of the logical fallacies in the video which basically had to do with attacking the person presenting the argument instead of attacking their actual argument. There was also Red Herring which is where you purposely change the subject or talk about something else in order to distract from the argument, which i do often when i know i owe my parents money i'll bring up something else when i see them so they don't ask for their money back. There as also the "slippery slope" logical fallacies which is where it's implied if one thing happens then much more sever things will follow, like the phrase "marijuana is a gateway drug".
I learned quite a bit about fallacies from the video about logical fallacies but my favorite two were the slippery slope fallacy and the bandwagon fallacy. The slippery slope fallacy portrays a cause and effect type scenario to convince the audience of something the effect that is trying to be proven can't be backed up in fact and is usually pretty far-fetched. The bandwagon fallacy is when the author of the argument is trying to appeal to an audience by making seem that if the audience is not doing what the author wants then they are out of the ordinary and should instead be doing what everyone else is doing. Basically, bandwagon is supposed to make you feel like an outcast if you don't do what ever the author of the argument wants you to do.
There were several logical fallacies that were discussed in the video including circular reasoning, slippery slope, post hoc, appeal to authority, and the straw man fallacy among others. One of the most common fallacies I hear is the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy which occurs when someone takes two events that have occurred and reason that one happened simply because it happened after the other. This is fallacious because just because one event follows another, it does not necessarily mean it was caused by the previous event. Another common fallacy is the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is used when someone refutes an argument that wasn't actually made by their opponent. The argument that they refute can be an oversimplified version of the argument or something completely unrelated.
Circular Reasoning is a fallacy because of its circular idea thats basis is: if i say it exists, it exists. A writer will use this in order to confuse the reader by using two separate questions when they are really the same question phrased differently, but because the writer has asked these questions in a way that cant be denied the reader is convinced whatever is being asked is true. There is also the red herring where the speaker tries to change the subject away to a similar topic in order to move the focus from one thing to something that deserves more focus in the speakers eyes.
One logical fallacy in the video was false dilemma. This is known as an informal fallacy in which there are only two options given when really there are more than two. For example, one thing I related this to was when you are at someone's house and they offer you only two different types of drinks when really they have more than two. Another logical fallacy was begging the claim, or also known as "begging the question." This involves when someone says something like "She assumes this is right because so and so is true." This does not mean the girl is actually right. She just assumed something based on something else she knew was true.
Some logical fallacies can include breaks in the logic of one's argument that can vary from a slippery slope to a fallacy known as ad hominem abusive, which is an attack on another arguer. A slippery slope fallacy is an argument that states that the consequence of this smaller issue will be a much larger issue. An example of this, that was used in the video, is that someone smoking marijuana will start to smoke crack, expressly because of their smoking of marijuana. An example of an ad hominem abusive argument is a straw man fallacy. This is where an opposing arguer takes the argument of another and warps it into a straw man of sorts to attack. An example of this would be that if someone wanted looser regulations on say drugs and alcohol and another's argument was that we cannot allow for unrestricted access to intoxicants or society will strain. The argument of looser regulations was warped into no regulations and then attacked.
Some of the fallacies I learned about from the video include: red herring, slippery slope, and hasty generalization. Red herring fallacies try to appeal to pity, like for example, if a teacher catches a student cheating and the student states that his parents would kill him if they found out. An example of slippery slope, or that a minor action will lead to greater consequences, like if a child runs into the street he will grow up to be a serial killer. Hasty generalizations are conclusions that aren't justified. Usually they jump to conclusions, like if my father smoked cigarettes for all his life and still doesn't have cancer, so if I smoke cigarettes I won't get cancer either.
One of the logical fallacies I learned over the weekend is the slippery slope fallacy. This occurs when an individual connects events assuming they one will occur because another one happens. For example, one might say because I spent so much time working on this essay, so I will receive a good grade on it. However, that is not always the case and grades depend on ability in addition to effort. Another fallacy i learned over the weekend is the straw man fallacy. This occurs when an individual twists a statement from another individual into a meaning that he did not intend. After this he attacks this claim to support his own idea. For example, if someone says that they don't want to have kids because they do not have money saved up. Someone might twist that statement to say that individual is not willing to spend money on a child because they are self-centered. However, the original statement's meaning was that the person did not think they could fully provide for a child at this moment in time and that it would be better to be more financially stable before having a child.
post hoc fallacy- a fallacy that is intertwined with two events, where one is said to cause the other. an example would be the groundhog seeing its shadow every year and how some people believe that as a way to predict how long winter will last or how fast spring will appear and others may argue that whatever happens is merely a coincidence.
Ad hominem (type of formal fallacy)- basically a personal attack. a specific example would be not liking a judge or politician simply because of their party affiliation and not on how they may conduct themselves .
I learned about the bandwagon approach. This argument basically comes from the idea of "everyone else is doing it". For instance, a smoker may say that it is okay to smoke because it is very common and lots of people he/she knows does it. This argument is invalid for explaining why he/she does the smoking. How everyone else is acting should not be your reasoning for acting/believing a certain way. Basically, people tend to believe a certain idea or statement is correct because the majority sees it that way. However, this is not a legitimate reason to believe in something. Using the idea that everyone is doing it does not back up the actual argument at hand.
Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. I learned that often, these don't happen on accident in speech or media. Many politicians try to use logical fallacies to their advantage. They attempt to sway their audiences using fallacies as tricks and illusions. Two of the most common in the political world are appeal to emotion and ad hominem. Politicians appeal to their audiences' emotions with an ulterior motive all the time. Ad hominem is seen regularly as politicians degrade and slander each other in order to improve their own image in the eyes of the public.
One of the fallacies discussed was slippery slope which is where someone assumes or asserts that one event must follow another without any rational argument, almost like a landslide on a mountain. This fallacy is like a chain reaction where one event is just going to trigger a whole bunch of others inevitably. The example given was that if someone smokes marijuana one day, they will end up a crack smoker. This assumes that the person will just automatically follow some path that seems to be written out, when in reality one event doesn't have the same outcome every time.
Another fallacy discussed was begging the question means a person assumes a some kind of information as you ask a question. For example, if someone asks how long you have been cheating on tests or homework, they are assuming that you have cheated before and have been doing so for a while. The problem with this is that you can't go on assuming information if you don't know the truth.
One fallacy that was discussed in the video was the slippery slope fallacy. This fallacy suggests that one event must follow another without any rational argument. The narrator brings up an example regarding drugs. If someone smokes marijuana one day, he'll be smoking crack the next, which is not necessarily true. Another example would be to assume that just because a student is late to the first day of class, he will be late everyday for the rest of the semester. The circumstances and reasons to why he was late are unknown, so we cannot assume this about this student.
The logical fallacy means that when people are talking and making a conversation they usually use poor logical reasoning. There are a variety of fallacies such as slippery slope, begging the question or the claim, circular argument or circular reasoning and a straw man argument. Taking the slippery slope as an example, someone may assert that some event must inevitably follow from another without any rational arguments; he ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition. For instance, the circular argument means that a man takes the form of A is true because B is true and B is true because A is true.
The slippery slope fallacy states that one event must inevitably cause another. This type of claim does not have any logical reasoning. For example, if you make an exception for one person you have to make exceptions for everyone. The circular argument fallacy states that A is true because B is true and B is true because A is true. The claims are not logically proven to be true because their reliability cannot be determined. An example of a circular argument is, I am right because I said I'm right.
ReplyDeleteAd Hominem was one of the logical fallacies in the video which basically had to do with attacking the person presenting the argument instead of attacking their actual argument. There was also Red Herring which is where you purposely change the subject or talk about something else in order to distract from the argument, which i do often when i know i owe my parents money i'll bring up something else when i see them so they don't ask for their money back. There as also the "slippery slope" logical fallacies which is where it's implied if one thing happens then much more sever things will follow, like the phrase "marijuana is a gateway drug".
ReplyDeleteI learned quite a bit about fallacies from the video about logical fallacies but my favorite two were the slippery slope fallacy and the bandwagon fallacy. The slippery slope fallacy portrays a cause and effect type scenario to convince the audience of something the effect that is trying to be proven can't be backed up in fact and is usually pretty far-fetched. The bandwagon fallacy is when the author of the argument is trying to appeal to an audience by making seem that if the audience is not doing what the author wants then they are out of the ordinary and should instead be doing what everyone else is doing. Basically, bandwagon is supposed to make you feel like an outcast if you don't do what ever the author of the argument wants you to do.
ReplyDeleteThere were several logical fallacies that were discussed in the video including circular reasoning, slippery slope, post hoc, appeal to authority, and the straw man fallacy among others. One of the most common fallacies I hear is the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy which occurs when someone takes two events that have occurred and reason that one happened simply because it happened after the other. This is fallacious because just because one event follows another, it does not necessarily mean it was caused by the previous event. Another common fallacy is the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is used when someone refutes an argument that wasn't actually made by their opponent. The argument that they refute can be an oversimplified version of the argument or something completely unrelated.
ReplyDeleteCircular Reasoning is a fallacy because of its circular idea thats basis is: if i say it exists, it exists. A writer will use this in order to confuse the reader by using two separate questions when they are really the same question phrased differently, but because the writer has asked these questions in a way that cant be denied the reader is convinced whatever is being asked is true. There is also the red herring where the speaker tries to change the subject away to a similar topic in order to move the focus from one thing to something that deserves more focus in the speakers eyes.
ReplyDeleteOne logical fallacy in the video was false dilemma. This is known as an informal fallacy in which there are only two options given when really there are more than two. For example, one thing I related this to was when you are at someone's house and they offer you only two different types of drinks when really they have more than two. Another logical fallacy was begging the claim, or also known as "begging the question." This involves when someone says something like "She assumes this is right because so and so is true." This does not mean the girl is actually right. She just assumed something based on something else she knew was true.
ReplyDeleteSome logical fallacies can include breaks in the logic of one's argument that can vary from a slippery slope to a fallacy known as ad hominem abusive, which is an attack on another arguer. A slippery slope fallacy is an argument that states that the consequence of this smaller issue will be a much larger issue. An example of this, that was used in the video, is that someone smoking marijuana will start to smoke crack, expressly because of their smoking of marijuana. An example of an ad hominem abusive argument is a straw man fallacy. This is where an opposing arguer takes the argument of another and warps it into a straw man of sorts to attack. An example of this would be that if someone wanted looser regulations on say drugs and alcohol and another's argument was that we cannot allow for unrestricted access to intoxicants or society will strain. The argument of looser regulations was warped into no regulations and then attacked.
ReplyDeleteSome of the fallacies I learned about from the video include: red herring, slippery slope, and hasty generalization. Red herring fallacies try to appeal to pity, like for example, if a teacher catches a student cheating and the student states that his parents would kill him if they found out. An example of slippery slope, or that a minor action will lead to greater consequences, like if a child runs into the street he will grow up to be a serial killer. Hasty generalizations are conclusions that aren't justified. Usually they jump to conclusions, like if my father smoked cigarettes for all his life and still doesn't have cancer, so if I smoke cigarettes I won't get cancer either.
ReplyDeleteOne of the logical fallacies I learned over the weekend is the slippery slope fallacy. This occurs when an individual connects events assuming they one will occur because another one happens. For example, one might say because I spent so much time working on this essay, so I will receive a good grade on it. However, that is not always the case and grades depend on ability in addition to effort. Another fallacy i learned over the weekend is the straw man fallacy. This occurs when an individual twists a statement from another individual into a meaning that he did not intend. After this he attacks this claim to support his own idea. For example, if someone says that they don't want to have kids because they do not have money saved up. Someone might twist that statement to say that individual is not willing to spend money on a child because they are self-centered. However, the original statement's meaning was that the person did not think they could fully provide for a child at this moment in time and that it would be better to be more financially stable before having a child.
ReplyDeletepost hoc fallacy- a fallacy that is intertwined with two events, where one is said to cause the other. an example would be the groundhog seeing its shadow every year and how some people believe that as a way to predict how long winter will last or how fast spring will appear and others may argue that whatever happens is merely a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteAd hominem (type of formal fallacy)- basically a personal attack. a specific example would be not liking a judge or politician simply because of their party affiliation and not on how they may conduct themselves .
I learned about the bandwagon approach. This argument basically comes from the idea of "everyone else is doing it". For instance, a smoker may say that it is okay to smoke because it is very common and lots of people he/she knows does it. This argument is invalid for explaining why he/she does the smoking. How everyone else is acting should not be your reasoning for acting/believing a certain way. Basically, people tend to believe a certain idea or statement is correct because the majority sees it that way. However, this is not a legitimate reason to believe in something. Using the idea that everyone is doing it does not back up the actual argument at hand.
ReplyDeleteLogical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. I learned that often, these don't happen on accident in speech or media. Many politicians try to use logical fallacies to their advantage. They attempt to sway their audiences using fallacies as tricks and illusions. Two of the most common in the political world are appeal to emotion and ad hominem. Politicians appeal to their audiences' emotions with an ulterior motive all the time. Ad hominem is seen regularly as politicians degrade and slander each other in order to improve their own image in the eyes of the public.
ReplyDeleteOne of the fallacies discussed was slippery slope which is where someone assumes or asserts that one event must follow another without any rational argument, almost like a landslide on a mountain. This fallacy is like a chain reaction where one event is just going to trigger a whole bunch of others inevitably. The example given was that if someone smokes marijuana one day, they will end up a crack smoker. This assumes that the person will just automatically follow some path that seems to be written out, when in reality one event doesn't have the same outcome every time.
ReplyDeleteAnother fallacy discussed was begging the question means a person assumes a some kind of information as you ask a question. For example, if someone asks how long you have been cheating on tests or homework, they are assuming that you have cheated before and have been doing so for a while. The problem with this is that you can't go on assuming information if you don't know the truth.
One fallacy that was discussed in the video was the slippery slope fallacy. This fallacy suggests that one event must follow another without any rational argument. The narrator brings up an example regarding drugs. If someone smokes marijuana one day, he'll be smoking crack the next, which is not necessarily true. Another example would be to assume that just because a student is late to the first day of class, he will be late everyday for the rest of the semester. The circumstances and reasons to why he was late are unknown, so we cannot assume this about this student.
ReplyDeleteThe logical fallacy means that when people are talking and making a conversation they usually use poor logical reasoning. There are a variety of fallacies such as slippery slope, begging the question or the claim, circular argument or circular reasoning and a straw man argument. Taking the slippery slope as an example, someone may assert that some event must inevitably follow from another without any rational arguments; he ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition. For instance, the circular argument means that a man takes the form of A is true because B is true and B is true because A is true.
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