Attacking Faulty Reasoning

In their work over the past ten years, Malcom Gladwell and Steven Pinker have presented their research and hypotheses regarding the unexpected implications of contemporary social issues. Specifically, their respective views on preventing criminal activity and disproving the growing concerns in regards to society’s reliance on mass media. In an excerpt from Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, the author analyzes the application of a theory known as “the tipping point”. Likewise, Steven Pinker’s essay “Mind over Mass Media” examines whether there is a connection between mass media and lower intelligence by analyzing recent data and statistics. Despite both author’s respectable statuses in the academic world and their extensive research, both Gladwell and Pinker display possible logical errors within their respective essays. The following paragraphs will compare and contract Malcom Gladwell and Steven Pinker’s logical analysis and then determine whether their errors affect the credibility of their conclusions. Malcom Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker known for his research in sociology, psychology, and social psychology. In an excerpt of his book released in 2000, The Tipping Point, Gladwell accredits a reduction in crime during the 1990’s to a theory known as the tipping point. He defines the tipping point theory using the words of the two criminologists who coined the theory, James Wilson and George Kelling: “If a window is broken and left…

Fallacy is a kind of error during arguing or reasoning anything. Fallacy may be created intentionally or unintentionally, majorly identified fallacy involved in argument some are in explanation definition etc. Some people also define fallacy as failure in providing sufficient proof for a believe. Just after voting when Three said to Eight that” That person is dangerous killer you were at court and heard all the things.” Here this point is fallacy (cherry picking or begging the question) because…

counter the idea, the person can assert “I am entitled to my own opinion,” which ends argument but maintains disagreement and lack of conclusion. People use valid and fallacious arguments in constructing their own meaning, such as “love it or leave it,” and when they express those thoughts, the fallacy is attached to the idea. In this manner of attachment, the person is wrong—if the person is assigning their value to the idea, which we often do. Further the negative impact of being “wrong” can…

include, use clear examples that illustrate the point, like telling a compelling story that includes statistics and examples to offer. Fallacies are errors in reasoning that occur when a speaker fails to use appropriate evidence for the argument they are presenting. Fallacies surround us and we hear them every day, although we may not recognize them. A is begging the question because the person is saying that if those actions were illegal, they wouldn’t be prohibited by law, which is obvious,…

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…

other points address how hate speech can socially affect an individual. She claims that hate speech can lead to violence because an individual might use their speech as a way to harm a targeted group physically or emotionally. Hate speech according to Matsuda can affect the mind of others because it creates a sense of implicit bias 2Mastuda final point argues that individuals that are victims of hate speech may lose faith in the government because they no longer feel protected since they are…

more frequently in the most recent presidential race, the use of post-truth politics. This is “a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored (Post-truth Politics). So many people form emotional attachments to their arguments that they appear to be seeing through glasses with bias lenses. One example of a politician engaging in debate with a…

Beginning English composition two I was anxious and concerned about the level of difficulty of the course. My experience with English composition one was challenging to say the least. Even when I put countless hours of dedication and effort into each essay, my grades would fall short despite the time put in. This experience lead to my apprehension towards taking English Composition two here at Auburn. To my surprise, English Composition Two has been a success for me. I have made tremendous…

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.…