Logical fallacies

women who have the strength, motivation, and confidence to take on stereotypical male political positions... this further proves the single-sex system's ability to raise confidence, thus breaking career stereotypes" (Pampillonia, 30). This is the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc (a caused b just because b came after a). This is an ill use of her sources to make her argument, and she may have been better suited to show how much better most students are doing economically after…

(a) It is obvious that the media plays its role on what we perceive today. Our moral values are most rooted in society’s standards and our culture of what is seen as the norm. Mass media is forms of communication to a large audience, it can be equated to our television, newspaper, radio, the internet and social networks. For over a few years now the internet and social networks have become our major source of mass media today. How we communication and how we receive information has shifting…

me to address because he had already spent a lot of effort and time in this implementation. I did not want to belittle his efforts. To make matters worse, this would get rid of the majority of our code. For a moment I was victim of the straw man fallacy: I felt I had to choose between keeping my teammate happy or make our implementation more efficient and in time with our schedule. I realized the choice was an illusion, and I had to find the way to accomplish both. I prepared my arguments and…

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…

As I noted earlier, Why Nations Fail minces no words with respect to the geography and particularly Diamond’s argument. While Acemoglu and Robinson do admit that it “is a powerful approach to the puzzle on which he focuses,” they dismiss it offhand because it cannot be extended to explain “modern world inequality,” or regional/intracontinental disparities (52). It is here that they lose a huge opportunity by falling into fallacious reasoning. Geography played an initial roll — just because it…

Fallacies in Ads: Everyone is Doing It! Fallacies are common errors in reasoning (Weber and Brizee). We see ads on T.V., in newspapers, magazines and we even hear them on the radio. When we see or listen to these ads, we always take what they say about the product to be true and want the product being advertised to us. Then again that is the purpose of ads, right? To make people want to buy their products. Some fallacies that I found include either/or reasoning, bandwagon, overreliance on…

often aggressive and even mean or rude in his arguments but it doesn’t seem as if this would cause the reader to put the book down immediately. It might even increase the reader’s willingness to continue. He includes such overall silly (but often logical) graphics in the margins such as the “Top Ten Bastards of All Time” list (Beck, 223), in which Adolf Hitler is ranked at number 6 while Tiger Woods is ranked at number 2. Even through all this, the reader may find something about Glenn Beck and…

Ad populum and Ad hominem are two type of fallacies that is best avoided in an argument because they offer no real contribution toward the topic of discussion and at the same time, they can bring down the quality of the argument Ad populum is the assumption that if the majority of people believe in a certain proposition, then that proposition must be true. People has always been vulnerable to the group mentality but nowadays, the usage of ad populum is even more prevalent due to the internet and…

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…

It seems odd that a client would present for treatment while simultaneously being opposed to making changes, but this is indeed what counselors frequently encounter. Such clients are usually coerced into therapy. A person in legal trouble may be offered a deferred sentence for undergoing outpatient treatment if they are assessed to have a substance-use disorder (SUD) or other behavioral problem which contributed to the offense. Others might seek treatment to assuage family members, avoid a…