The Ad Hominem fallacy is when you attack your opponent with unrelated personal jabs in an effort to undermine them and come out on top. In the cartoon above, because Candidate B does not have an argument to counter Candidate A’s argument in favor of raising minimum wage, they resort […]
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Week-9 Activity 4 — Post 7 Logical Fallacies by: Rashida Washington The Loaded Question Fallacy, is a big ole trap! It’s a way to form a question in a way that incriminates the person being asked. It puts a person in a lose-lose situation. Almost like a way of […]
Anecdotal evidence is the use of personal experience as proof of an argument. For example, my friend believes psychics are real because they have predicted her future correctly twice. Because she has experience with a psychic being correct, she refuses to believe studies that disprove their ability to see the […]
The Burden of proof fallacy is when someone argues a point that they have is correct, but they cannot prove that they are right through evidence so they rely on the other party to prove that they are wrong. An example of this is someone saying something inaccurate like “Donald […]
Personal Incredulity is when a person does not seem to comprehend an idea or argument so they seem to disregard it as untrue because of their lack of understanding. Some people might not believe in your argument because of the lack of evidence or because of the complexity of your […]
This fallacy gets around the argument by focusing on the origins of something or someone. It’s related to the fallacy of ad hominem. It takes advantage of pre-existing negative impressions to make someone’s argument appear weak without actually offering evidence for why the argument is flawed. Example: The Commissioner, who […]
I chose appeal to emotion because you manipulate a response during an argument with the way you feel about a certain discussion, using emotional responses to get whatever you want. The cartoon below is a lawyer and a murderer trying to convince the jury to feel bad for the criminal […]
Appeal to emotion, in my words means to manipulate the person’s emotions so that they accept the argument without (usually)arguing back. It is usually used to guide the person away from the logic but instead to have them think about how this can affect them emotionally. I find it crazy […]
Personal incredulity occurs when we find something confusing that the concept is difficult to understand or when it does not understand how it works and perhaps concludes that it is not valid. Therefore it is incorrect or not true. For Example, It is impossible for us to land a man […]
The false cause fallacy is when someone incorrectly assumes a causal relationship between two things that probably does not exist. An example of the false cause fallacy is the expression “College is the key of success” which could be but is not necessarely true because there are many people who […]
Appeal to Authority fallacy is when you believe someone blindly because you admire that person or it can be a role model as well. When I was younger, my dad have told me to not to get in the pond because a devil would come and drag me inside of […]
