Examples Of Three Fallacies

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The three fallacies I chose to visit on the websites were the Straw Man Fallacy, the Ad Hominem fallacy and the Slippery Slope fallacy. All three of these fallacies are bad arguments because they do not provide a good premises, and they misrepresent the conclusion. First, the Straw Man fallacy occurs when someone creates an exaggerated view to discredit the opponent’s actual view. For example, a person wants to convince someone to change their beliefs, so they exaggerate their point of view. Therefore, the do not have a good argument. Second, the Ad Hominem fallacy attacks a person’s view instead of arguing against the view the person asserts. For example, it is common for a view to be rejected because the person who asserted the view

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