The fallacy I chose is a strawman. It is a kind of red herring that misleads or diverts attention away from a pertinent or significant subject. It is also where you avoid the point of an original argument when forming your counterargument and instead make up a point to attack […]
Discussion Board Post 7: Fallacies
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A fallacy that I pick is ambiguity. Ambiguity fallacy is when someone is confused with what was being said. A word or phrase that was being misunderstood or unclear to the other person. For example, a person said to the other person that “he was hunting a deer in a […]
The fallacy I chose is “loaded question”. This fallacy is a complex question that involves a controversial assumption that can leave someone feeling guilty. An example of this would be if a women were to ask her husband if she looks fat in a dress, and the husband answering honestly […]
The fallacy I chose is “bandwagon”. This fallacy is about how people can be easily influence by the things they see people do. It’s more like a popularity contest, if all my friends are on social media then, I must be on it at all cost.
The fallacy I chose is “Genetic” it’s stating how the way we treat the information from whoever it comes from good or bad based on the origin. An example of genetic would my mother said every friend I’ve have made aren’t really your friend which she told me at very […]
Aneta MatygaAssignment #7 The fallacy I chose is “appeal to nature”. It’s basically believing and making an argument that only natural things are great and anything besides that is not good. A good example of people who use this fallacy would be an anti in-vitro people. Who claim that this […]
Review our Discussion Board instructions so that your replies can shine yet again. Select one fallacy from the list of 24 fallacies discussed in this module. Challenge: pick one that hasn’t been claimed yet. Next, create a new post with your fallacy in the title of the message. In your own words, define the […]
