Argumentation theory

For this extra credit opportunity, I watched the first Republican debates of the 2016 campaign. Given that this assignment is for an advanced public speaking course, I focused most of my attention on the nonverbal communication of the debaters and their use of rhetorical devices, two qualities that distinguish advanced public speakers. During the course of the debate, several candidates showed strengths and weaknesses in these areas. Every candidate appeared to understand the importance of…

The art of arguing has been around for thousands of years. We use it in everyday life, both in writing and when speaking. Arguing has evolved to contain many concepts; Some of the most important concepts are setting your goal, avoiding logical fallacies, and using rhetorical appeals. Setting your goal in the book “Thank you for arguing” is referenced as Cicero’s lightbulb. Cicero’s lightbulb is setting a personal goal of what you want to accomplish from an argument. Setting a goal helps keep an…

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.…

When studying the philosophy of argumentation, it’s clear to observant participants that there are different ways to come to and defend ones statement. In any given statement used in an argument, there are various ways to group and dissect these larger reasoning’s into categories that qualify their conclusions in similar ways. Two of these categories that we use to justify arguments are branch support and joint support. Branch support is able to justify its conclusion by giving premises that…

In Deborah Tannen’s article “The Argument Culture,” she states that due to the ways that society has changed it seems as if we only know how to argue and criticize. Life as we know it tends to revolve around people being partisan in every subject that comes to the table. She explains that“war metaphors pervade our talk and shape our thinking,” (Tannen) trying to mean that everything seems like a battle where there is supposed to be just one winner. Tannen continues with saying that even though…

What is a fallacy argument? A fallacy argument is an argument in which the reasoning is given poorly or error in reasoning, whether or not the conclusion is true in many cases fallacy arguments may appear correct though if thought logically it would be wrong. “(The word fallacy actually stems from the Latin verb fallere, which means “to deceive.”)” (Herrick, 661p). The word fallacy sticks to its roots and deceiving the person or thing making it believe in what might not appear real is real. We…

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…

Debate I have been involved in debate since 6th grade, before out middle school provided a debate class. Three of my friends and I were coached by elder sibling of a couple friends in the event of congress, which we were able to compete in via our UDL, which hosted middle school tournaments and gave us the resources to participate in the program. Midway through 7th grade, I began competing in the event of policy debate with a close friend, through which, for middle scholars, we reached a…

Logical fallacies are prominent in modern American culture; one place such fallacies are found, and more often than not, overlooked is in print ads. We see these advertisements in our day-to-day lives and allow them to influence our decisions but if we take a deeper look we may be dissatisfied with the underground message being conveyed, amongst other things. This advertisement centered on Alicia Silverstone provides us with a great example of logical fallacies found in modern advertising and…

If Dick Cheney were to present a rhetoric on “Protecting Jobs at Home from Unfair Competition Abroad” to the AFL-CIO, he is more likely to fail in persuading the audience rather than winning them over. In the hypothetical, Cheney fails to use a proper argument form in persuading his audience. He offers claims of a possible solution by using enthymematic argument and the evidence oriented argument in the attempts to win over his audience. Cheney expects audience familiarity with the complicated…