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    Critical Analysis of “Online Higher Education’s Individualist Fallacy” by Johann N. Neem Many students around the country have the ultimate dream to start a higher education. In these days, technology is changing in our society providing the students with efficient access to faster internet, emails, and unlimited access to information. Online and traditional education offer to students a variety of options to achieve an educational success in students. Moreover, certain students choose to take…

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    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…

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    One of the fallacies I found was slippery slope. Slippery slope is a fallacy that asserts some event such as the world ending must inevitably follow from lack of action by government. Greg Craven, the logician in the video states that there will be “sea level rising, entire coastal countries disappearing…

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    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, B is causal fallacy because he is saying that the team only won because of a lucky pair of socks, C is bandwagon fallacy because the manager said that because no one else complained, he must be the…

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    effect some have grown accustomed to them, and do not consider the errors in reasoning they are filled with. The media uses advertisements that contain logical fallacies like the weak analogy fallacy, the ad hominem fallacy, and the either/or fallacy, to shape the opinion of the public For example, Ameriquest has a weak analogy fallacy in a recent television ad.A dad who is driving his teenage daughter and her friends to a concert. The daughter asks her father to stop to the store, because…

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    In this type of fallacy the author sets up a very weak opposing side and subsequently wins it over. The author of this article has indirectly exhibited this type of fallacy because he does not acknowledge the opposing side at all. There is indeed a possibility that the FRG units may not be beneficial to some members of the soldier community will not benefit from the program because may be they have no family at all. This fallacy is normally avoided by anticipating in advance…

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    based on the available evidence” (“E.T Observer”). My alternate hypothesis makes claim unreasonable, but it explains more variety things. I can not say alternate hypothesis is the simplest answer. Since my alternate hypothesis also has a logical fallacy of “post hoc, ergo propter hoc”, the argument is not conservative. And guiding principle for this claim is what I learned from the module: to keep an open mid, but that’s different from believing anything we’re told. An open mind means we’re…

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    While reading the book An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, I came across various fallacies that were used within The Postmortal. For example, argument from consequences was used when the cure became accessible to those who were discrete about the process. Many people in the novel were against the idea of becoming postmortel. Their personal…

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    The only severe one that I found offensive was the first hasty generalization in which he said people who play games by themselves feel ashamed. Although, minor fallacies, can be found within the text, like when he hasty generalized Grand Theft Auto 's community, or when he used an appeal to pity to draw attention. Leonard definitely won with his simple but informational argument. Leonard strives, as far as I can…

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    It is invalid because Salviati detects a logical fallacy in the Aristotelian view. When Salviati asks Simplicio how he proves that the stone fell in a straight path beside the towers, Simplicio says that he can prove it “by the senses”. Salviati goes on to explain that the Aristotelians are committing the logical fallacy of petitio principii, which can be translated to “begging the question”. This means that the Aristotelians are assuming…

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