Inductive Fallacies
A. Lurch: “Why don’t you take an analgesic for your terrible headache, Fester?” Fester: “You know that nature’s way is best, Lurch. It’s not wise to interfere with Mother Nature.” Lurch: “So you are just going sit there and suffer?” Fester: “I’m going to let nature take its course because the natural way is obviously the best way.”
This is the example of the “relativist fallacy”. Fester rejects a claim by asserting that the claim might be true for Lurch and for others, but it is not true for him. The claim about the use of an analgesic in treatment of headaches is relative to Fester and his beliefs. This claim presents the truth for one person, and false for another at the same time (“Inductive Reasoning” 43).
B. Bubba: “Hey Jackie, I heard that there fella’ is from Afghanistan.” Jackie: “Okay. And?” Bubba: “I …show more content…
D. Mick: “American cars, for the most part, are more reliable and cheaper to repair than foreign cars.” Keith: “Ah, Mick, me aunt had a Ford™ that did’na last a year before the motor crapped out. Aye, it was, in the end, cheaper to buy a new Toyota™ and she’s had that car for five years.” This is an example of “anecdotal evidence” that comes from a limited personal story, experience, and knowledge of Keith, who does not agree that the American cars are more reliable and cheaper to repair than foreign cars. This claim cannot be the representative of the population about which the generalization was created. (“Inductive Reasoning” 37).
E. Wayne: "Look at this, Garth. I read that people who do not get enough exercise tend to be unhealthy." Garth: "That may be true for you, but I happen to know that I don’t need your exercise to be
A. Lurch: “Why don’t you take an analgesic for your terrible headache, Fester?” Fester: “You know that nature’s way is best, Lurch. It’s not wise to interfere with Mother Nature.” Lurch: “So you are just going sit there and suffer?” Fester: “I’m going to let nature take its course because the natural way is obviously the best way.”
This is the example of the “relativist fallacy”. Fester rejects a claim by asserting that the claim might be true for Lurch and for others, but it is not true for him. The claim about the use of an analgesic in treatment of headaches is relative to Fester and his beliefs. This claim presents the truth for one person, and false for another at the same time (“Inductive Reasoning” 43).
B. Bubba: “Hey Jackie, I heard that there fella’ is from Afghanistan.” Jackie: “Okay. And?” Bubba: “I …show more content…
D. Mick: “American cars, for the most part, are more reliable and cheaper to repair than foreign cars.” Keith: “Ah, Mick, me aunt had a Ford™ that did’na last a year before the motor crapped out. Aye, it was, in the end, cheaper to buy a new Toyota™ and she’s had that car for five years.” This is an example of “anecdotal evidence” that comes from a limited personal story, experience, and knowledge of Keith, who does not agree that the American cars are more reliable and cheaper to repair than foreign cars. This claim cannot be the representative of the population about which the generalization was created. (“Inductive Reasoning” 37).
E. Wayne: "Look at this, Garth. I read that people who do not get enough exercise tend to be unhealthy." Garth: "That may be true for you, but I happen to know that I don’t need your exercise to be