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    use support, it is only looking towards her side. Whereas, “The Clinton Way” has fallacies of manufactured evidence, ad hominem and slippery slope. It’s fallacies bring people against Clinton. All of the fallacies that are put in the argument for Trump happen with little to no support. It puts down Hillary’s character with fake proof which creates manufactured evidence and ad hominem. Also, “The Clinton Way” is using slippery slope when it talks about all the bad stuff and shows her banging…

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    herself. The structure of this example demonstrates Anderson’s use of ad hominem, or attacking the character of one’s opponent in an attempt to undermine the argument of the opponent. By using words such as “killer” and “murder weapon” in direct association to George Zimmerman, Anderson makes it clear to her readers that she views Zimmerman as no more than a murderer. Whether Anderson’s attack is warranted or not, her use of an ad hominem logical fallacy better distinguishes her argument and her…

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    Dr. Vandana Shiva is a nuclear physicist, environmental and social activist who agrees that Globalization increases poverty and inequity. Her primary example is the country of India and how global corporations produce and extract resources causing hardworking individuals, specifically farmers or agricultural professionals, to be forced out of labor and into poverty. She discusses the injustice these farmers and hardworking class face by being ignored as well as the significance of globalization…

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    in tandem with the ethos and pathos to set the mood. Sassoon did not use a variety of logical fallacies in his declaration besides appealing to emotion. War is an emotionally charged subject so in my opinion that is forgivable however he did use ad hominem as well which is not as forgivable. Without stating any facts he claims that those who are in charge, willingly keep the war going without giving any facts as to why that could be. This logical fallacy would likely detract from his argument to…

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    Emotional appeals are bad arguments because people tend to use emotionally-charged language in place of arguments. Emotionally-charged language sometimes appears in definitions and when it does the definition is a persuasive definition and sets the stage for a false argument. Also, emotionally charged language includes not only words that generate emotions, but words that suppress them, such as euphemisms. Misdirected appeals are bad arguments because they take the form of a legitimate appeal…

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    Secondly, it is an ad hominem, though unfortunately, it can be an effective one. People who are suddenly painted as a villain and are unused to it can often be scared off, and will retreat into the shadows. Those who do not can be made a mockery of, and are often viewed as laughable…

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    Sachs initial approach. If he wanted to argue in support of the reporter he could haves stated that HE did not believe what the reporter said was sexist rather than attacking her beliefs. Both could have made stronger civil arguments by avoiding ad hominem attacks, indexing, and owning their thoughts and feelings. According to chapter three of Communication in a civil society this can be achieved by using words and phrases such as: I , think, believe, feel perceive , perhaps, and maybe to…

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    Inhofe, he points out the targeted audience of global warming films. In his speech he uses a lot of ad hominems in an attempt to make his target lose credibility or damage their reputation, he uses fallacies against the person who made them to make them appear less credible, and he over uses pathos appeal which caused him to lose credibility. Inhofe’s speech is the least credible because he uses ad hominem attacks to discredit DiCaprio. DiCaprio wanted his audience to feel scared when they…

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    I. In each of the following categorical propositions identify the letter name, quantity, and quality. Then state whether the subject and predicate terms are distributed. 1. All governments that bargain with terrorists are governments that encourage terrorism. 2. No labor strikes are events welcomed by management. 3. Some hobbits are heroes. II. Change the quality but do not change the quantity of the following: 4. No vampires are vegetarians. 5. Some dragons are not threats to human…

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    commands on what should be done yesterday rather than in the future. Again, Rex is incapable to make law of guiding conduct. Fuller used this analogy to demonstrate, how Nazi regime debased and destroyed the legal system through ad hoc commands, retroactive laws, ad hominem laws, secret enactments, punishment without trial, indemnities for state condoned crimes, official disregard for the law and the practice of…

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