Logical Fallacy Summary
In the essay 15 Logical Fallacies You Should Know Before Getting into a Debate, by David Ferrer. The author thesis is “Here’s a list of the 15 informal fallacies you are most likely to encounter in discussion and debate”. The thesis gives me an idea of what the essay will be about. Ad homiens insult others and attack with words to win an argument or bring a person down. As straw man are easily defeated and the people causing this often times do not realize the hurt they do. Both ad homiens and straw man can be alike because they both can attack a person’s views, position, and insult them without doing so on purpose. Ignorance is the case of stating something is true then turning around and saying it is not true. Example, witchcraft is defiantly real then without backing it up turn around and say witchcraft is not real because there is no evidence to prove this case. There is no knowledge behind it and no evidence to support the claim it is a he says she says type of deal. Dilemma based arguments try to limit the options a person might have but when but there are many options out there they just want to take the effortless way out. …show more content…
Many people do this in their everyday life making up excuses for something not important just, taking it to extreme. Circular Arguments saying something is true because you say its true or something says its true because that what it states. People assuming things too fast without questioning it first or digging into the information on it before deciding. Hasty Generalization is making a statement without enough evidence to support it, it is like casual fallacy which is making an assumption with no evidence. Both are similar because they are making judgments without collecting the evidence to make the right decisions on what is put in front of them. Both casual and hasty make their assumptions based on what is in front of them
In the essay 15 Logical Fallacies You Should Know Before Getting into a Debate, by David Ferrer. The author thesis is “Here’s a list of the 15 informal fallacies you are most likely to encounter in discussion and debate”. The thesis gives me an idea of what the essay will be about. Ad homiens insult others and attack with words to win an argument or bring a person down. As straw man are easily defeated and the people causing this often times do not realize the hurt they do. Both ad homiens and straw man can be alike because they both can attack a person’s views, position, and insult them without doing so on purpose. Ignorance is the case of stating something is true then turning around and saying it is not true. Example, witchcraft is defiantly real then without backing it up turn around and say witchcraft is not real because there is no evidence to prove this case. There is no knowledge behind it and no evidence to support the claim it is a he says she says type of deal. Dilemma based arguments try to limit the options a person might have but when but there are many options out there they just want to take the effortless way out. …show more content…
Many people do this in their everyday life making up excuses for something not important just, taking it to extreme. Circular Arguments saying something is true because you say its true or something says its true because that what it states. People assuming things too fast without questioning it first or digging into the information on it before deciding. Hasty Generalization is making a statement without enough evidence to support it, it is like casual fallacy which is making an assumption with no evidence. Both are similar because they are making judgments without collecting the evidence to make the right decisions on what is put in front of them. Both casual and hasty make their assumptions based on what is in front of them