Attacking Faulty Reasoning

objective is to create an emotional connection with the audience or create trust with a speaker or writer, rhetoric is used in almost all of these situations. In “Nickel and Dimmed” by Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich employs rhetoric to create logic and reasoning, to create an emotional connection with the audience, and to build trust with the audience in order to support the claim that it is basically impossible to live off of minimum wage. By using these rhetorical tools, the audience feels…

1. Introduction. Ernst Mayr identifies the ‘One Long Argument’ in The Origin of Species (“Origin’) as a compound theory of two independent activities: modification over time and diversification in geographical space (Mayr 86). This paper will focus on the second element of Darwin’s compound theory, species diversification in geographical space as argued by Jerry Coyne in Why Evolution is True. My thesis is twofold: First, Coyne incorporates Darwin’s geographical space theory into four…

Most people’s automatic reaction when thinking about their future occupation is to consider what they love doing to be the top priority. However, Gordon Marino, professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College and editor of “The Quotable Kierkegaard”, believes that this should not be the case. He wrote on the subject in his article titled “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’”, which was published in The New York Times on May 17, 2014. His purpose in writing this article was to express his thoughts on…

When deciphering the fallacies of each statement, one must decide which are true or false. I chose numbers 1,2,12,`4,`6,18,23,26,27 and 28. When each statement is read. You have to think about which ones are subjected to fallacies, based on illogicalness, inattentions, concupiscent attachment or one’s beliefs. The ones that I chose were all fallacies except for one. It was number 1 in the textbook. In number one, effective proclamation about “abortion is murder”, is indeed an emotional…

In my policy speech, I wrote about teen unemployment and how it is so low. I included information on why teen unemployment is low, and my solutions for it. As for which type of argument that I uses happens to be Argument1. Argument1 refers to the claims that people make. My claim was the low rate of teen unemployment. Also, in Argument1 you have to find and explain solutions for the problems that are being claimed. My solution to the problem of teen unemployment was quite simple. These solutions…

topic under debates is on the subject on Human nature. In the given paper, I am going to compare Cleanthes’ and Philo’s views on Deity and reflect upon their disagreements on the inductive argumentation, and provide the explanation of deductive reasoning in Descartes’ “Meditations of first philosophy”. The key concept of a worldview promoted by Cleanthes states that God can be beheld via one’s observations and the process of thinking. He is an advocate of a so-called “natural religion”.…

Conjoint Measurement BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE To talk about the theory of conjoint measurement, we should already understand the theory of measurement. Conjoint Measurement is an example of fundamental measurement. If there is relationship between set A and set B, and a ∈ A and b ∈ B, we can construct a binary relation aRb. For example, suppose A is a set of squares and B is a set of rectangles. The binary relation aPb holds if and only if you judge the perimeter of a is smaller than b. We can…

Empirical information regarding the world is gathered by use of inductive reasoning. This inductive reasoning is defined, not with validity like deductive reasoning , but with the likelihood of the conclusion occurring (Béziau, 2005). In other words, inductive arguments gather from instances of evidence to formulate the likelihood of the occurrence of a conclusion that is much larger in scope than the body of evidence that supports it. Consequently, inductive arguments are said to make…

Despite being flawed, Piaget made exceptional contributions to the outlook we have on sensorimotor stages. He outdid those of his time, as most brilliant people who make history do, and his research paved an outline for others to do additional research on. Without the fundamentals of Piaget’s theories we may not have built upon the knowledge of these stages quite as quickly nor as proficiently. The stages of development Piaget recognized led to progression in the way we educate children, and led…

The article used inductive reasoning because journal articles and case studies were reviewed in order to create a theory based on the impact of new ICTs on social movements. It also disproved the theory that new ICTs created social movement when in reality older ICTs proved more useful…