Abductive reasoning

Write a well-developed paragraph about your research topic in which you intentionally commit several logical fallacies and/or hasty generalizations. What fallacies did you find in your research? When you reply to classmates this week, attempt to identify the logical fallacies and/or hasty generalizations in his or her main post and then explain what makes them fallacious. Do not respond to a post which already has a response until everyone has had at least one response to their initial posting.…

In the essay The Law, Frederic Bastiat argues how the perversion of the law affects its subjects in an adverse manner. He describes the law as, in its proper form, organized justice. The perversion of the law includes the violation of natural, or God-given, rights, which are personality (life), property, and liberty. According to Bastiat, forced government interventions like e.g. taxation are perversions of the law, since in its pursuit to help one group, it infringes on the rights of another.…

There are several legends or just stories regarding monsters that we have known since we were children and they have frightened us since we were young into our early teenage years. But if we really think about it, what might these monsters represent or why do we even have monsters. Authors attempted to look into the world of monsters more and attempt to identify more of what the monsters could symbolize or what they can represent regarding us, humankind. In other words, the authors explain their…

displays countless of fallacies and weaknesses in reasoning, which might object her position as a feminist. Her conclusions question her validity and sympathy to this issue and does not make a convincing argument. In the article, Paglia demonstrates abrupt reasoning, allures to fear, and she also makes weak arguments to interpret her poorly impressions of today’s dating, and rape. In paragraph 2 of the article, Paglia demonstrates abrupt reasoning in her argument, she states “Today these young…

Appeal to Majority The first fallacy is an example of appeal to majority (Ad Populum) An appeal to majority is when you do something only because everyone else is doing it and you feel weird not agreeing with the group. The character from Twelve Angry Men, who committed this fallacy was the old man. During the Preliminary Voting, when they asked who's voting guilty, after most people raised their hand, the old man slowly raised his hand but was kind of hesitating to do it. The old man's actions…

A new theory on fallacies should not just reassign terms to fallacies so people will feel better, which is the politically-correct agenda (What would we call fallacious arguments? Logically challenged discourse?) Rather, we don’t even need a “new” view, we need a view that has been around since humans first started contemplating speech, and that is to find meaning in an argument for the sake of meaning—a meaning that addresses the very fallacious nature of being human. We can concur with…

I once attended a persuasive speech in high school that attempted to persuade me to participate in other religious rituals. The woman that was presenting used many methods. She tried to change my beliefs by referring to different religious books, for instance, Allah. She also tried to change my attitude by making me feel as if I am being “stuck up” and “closed minded”. She wanted me to explore my options and branch out on my own other than following my parent’s beliefs. My religion is Christian…

A cure created by accident was a milestone that may have the obligation to serve great significance to history’s lifespan. The power and capacity of the cure’s effect has the capability to control society and the generations to come. This particular cure was established in the novel called The Postmortal that was written by the author named Drew Magary. In this novel, a man by the name of Graham Otto, had developed a cure that impedes aging for the duration of an eternity. The thought of that…

My expectations in the class were to critically evaluate college-level material, draw conclusions from close analysis, analyze the structure of arguments, and evaluate the soundness and facts presented in the argument. My goals were to learn more about the English language and writing. And I hoped to improve my writing as the class moved forward. The resources used were mostly online. I searched for similar sources or analysis from different pages. I was able to find website that either expanded…

A logical fallacy is defined as a reasoning which is used by the author in order to persuade the people to accept the conclusions. A logical fallacy is one of the strategies used by many authors in order to convince the readers in accepting their own conclusions. There are many types of logical…