The Fallacies Of Equivocation In Arguments

In this class we have studied various types of fallacies including fallacies of equivocation, fairness slippery slope fallacies, causal slippery slope fallacies, ad hominem fallacies, fallacious appeals to authority in addition to a few others. I will analyze the fallacies I specifically mentioned deeper by first explain them and their differences, give an example and then identify how one can identify them and decide if they are being used in arguments in their everyday life.

Fallacies of equivocation is used within arguments that have a key phrase or term that has multiple meanings and this ruins the argument. This makes it so one part of the argument could be meaning or speaking about something completely different then another part, making the argument ambiguous. An example of this is similar to the ones we did in class; argument that contain the word "bat" for instance could be understood as the animal and sport tool, weakening the point. One can point out this fallacy when they look at an argument and try to think about if there are multiple meanings within its over arching themes. Another way to identify these arguments is trying to understand if the premises are producing a valid argument interpreted one way, but at least one premise is false uniformly. …show more content…
They are basically speaking of the arbitrary lines that are drawn in various situations to come to a solution. It is hard to draw these lines due to this and we have spoke about how there is not really an easy solution to this because in a sense all line are arbitrary. An example of this is the one given in class about an 89.9 being counted as an A because its only .1 of a point away from 89, so in the name of fairness all grades would be A's because they are all .1 away from something that rounds up. These are identified if it can challenged or have degrees of