Loaded question

She believed there were two definitions of a human even though the difference might not always be distinct. Because of this, she argues the following common pro-life argument must be fallacious, (1) it is wrong to kill innocent human beings. (2) Fetuses are innocent human beings. (3) So, it is wrong to kill a fetus. The reason why she believes this argument is fallacious is because “human” is used in (1) and (2), so one of them must be question begging. And if human does have two definitions, then the conclusion would not…

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.…

“committed by introducing an irrelevant topic to divert attention from the original issue being discussed.” (John Chaffee, 30). This one fallacy is often used to mislead people, to distract them and to escape the situations. For example, when your boss asks you, “Why are you late to work?” so your comeback is “Oh, girl! I love your shoes, where did you buy them? I’ve been trying to get similar ones but it’s so hard!” The Complex question (or many questions) fallacy are “associated with…

Harvard. Dr. Tierney seemingly provides an expert-based and useful argument on America’s use of military power. Unfortunately, Tierney’s argument, whether right or wrong must be discarded because it is based on flagrant fallacies in logic. The argument’s most egregious logic fallacy is appeal to emotions. By definition, this fallacy is the use of emotionally charged language to distract readers from relevant reasons and evidence. Tierney uses death in war to distract his readers…

An arch of colored balloons marked the entrance with various carnival type games, like ring toss and Skee ball, that was spread throughout the street. Across the road was a station filled with children with butterflies and tigers painted across their faces . The smells of sugar and butter lingered through the air, while roaring Top 40’s music blasted throughout the night. The night was seemly going well, but unfortunately was cut short due to a gang threat. To further explain, a local gang heard…

In his essay “On the Want of Money” William Hazlitt draws comparisons between unpleasant circumstances and how they’re brought forth by the want of money / greed. There seems to be many unconnected pessimisms throughout the essay but they all relate to each other represented by the similarities in sentence structure. Hazlitt uses parallel structure to convey the idea that negative circumstances are united under one root cause: greed. Hazlitt draws an ironic connection between the want of money…

believe that Orenstein could have been better prepared since in my opinion it seemed that he did not answer the questions. From this seminar I took away two main lessons, one the most important is that you have to be prepared and know every aspect of your research, even if you are using other sources. The second lesson I took away from this presentation is that other scholars may have the same ideas as you and may beat you to publishing a similar research, thus your research has to stand out…

a crisp image and the beautiful sounds. “Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou thy music too While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, and touch the stubble-pains with rosy hue; then in a wailgul choir the small gnats mourn among the river sallows, borne aloft or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; all full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft the redbeast whistles from a garden –croft; And gathering…

the problems with past surveys has been, and how to overcome those problems in this survey design. First, I believe it is important to have questions that are not worded vaguely, or that provide for different emotions to be evoked based on a certain connotation of a word. For instance, Tom Smith (1987) proved that different connotations of different word meanings can and will lead to different responses, and that those responses are not true reflections of the question that was meant to be asked…

Ch 19 1. The factors that may influence respondents’ interpretation of words include ethnicity, region, nationality, sex, age and education. Word nuances and ambiguities , or unique and unclear language, can also affect word interpretation . Other factors are modifying adjectives and adverbs, grammatical standards, double negatives, double-barreled (two question) questions, leading and loaded questions, over-demanding recall questions, and questions that include prestige. 2. Often, occasionally,…