Logical fallacies

lacks the ability to provide social services. How could any nation that can’t take care of its own claim such power over the US. He boasts without a solid factual foundation that his statements can fall upon. It is also considered a leap in logic fallacy. From “…our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity…” (2) To “…we virtually run America now.” Balram can’t see how lack of public sanitation and health infrastructure to what is easily considered world control is…

The website about finding a new, “correct” value for pi falls into pseudoscience. The author, Mohammad-Reza Mehdinia, commits the logical fallacy of availability bias, which doubles as skipping an important aspect of science. This feature is considering previous experiments, data, or works and sifting through why they do not match with the new information. Mehdinia writes on his site that he does not include or consider the previous works involving pi in his research and calculations. While…

In “Racial Profiling and Criminal Justice,” Jesper Ryberg argues that “the apprehension of more criminals may not constitute a reason in favor of racial profiling” (Ryberg, 79). The evaluation begins with a brief discussion on racial profiling and its possible effects. Ryberg utilizes utilitarianism in conjunction with the retributivist approach to support his thesis. However, the underlying assumption, unclear concepts, and a lack of supporting evidence reduce the effectiveness of the author’s…

Governor George Wallace gave an inaugural address on January 14, 1963 when he was he was elected as the governor of Alabama. His inaugural speech addressed his “determination to defend Alabama’s sovereignty against the efforts of the national government to bring racial desegregation to the state.” Wallace’s speech was later published in Newsweek, New York Times and a variety of other news sources that were popular at this point in time. In 2005, Patricia Roberts-Miller wrote an article called…

same fear. However, this study lacks temporal validity because it was conducted over a hundred years ago, and since then psychologists have developed opposing theories with higher levels of accuracy. Also, the study raises the issue of treatment fallacy as although the psychoanalytic therapy worked for Hans, this does not mean that the main cause was dealt with, meaning an alternative cause was more likely the reason behind the phobia. The study of Little Hans cannot be generalised to the whole…

“Spending millions of dollars on a single capital case, the average police budget had to be cut by 7 percent this year.” Using persuasive methods Diehards argues his point with a few explanations. Throughout his small statements he provides many logical facts towards law enforcement officer's budgets. The layoff of many employed officer's increases the income for capital…

marriage partner expressed. Another aspect of Kurtz argument that needs to be addressed is his profound trust in the inevitability of the slippery slope. The slippery slope or the domino effect is a common logical fallacy used to prohibit actions that might cascade into a series of undesired results (Fallacy List). During the arguments claiming open marriages would lead to plural marriages, skewed evidence was used to explain why society would slip down the slope. All his evidence was based on…

Miller Brewing Company, a company claiming to be the inventors of light beer, was founded in 1855 when Frederick Miller bought the Plank Road Brewery in Milwaukee (cite). It was not until 1975 that Miller Brewing Company introduced its Lite brand (cite). The reasoning for coming up with a lite beer was so one could still drink beer without getting the dreaded beer belly. In this particular advertisement Miller Brewing Company makes some very specific statements. The very first words of the…

hamburger meat, so Bruck's guilt by association fallacy is effective, yet problematic. Moreover, his fallacy is effective because the pathos distracts his audience from a lack of substance in his logical support, yet it is problematic because it damages Bruck's credibility under close examination. Also, the inclusion of the crowd expressing "whoops of elation" exaggerates his emotional appeal (607). Instead of explaining…

Essay: The White Australia Policy The White Australia policy, formally named the Immigration Restriction Act, was introduced on the 23rd of December 1901 and was de jure (by law) discontinued in 1958. But de facto (by reality) racial discrimination and referring to Asian citizens as ‘aliens’ continued until the early 1970’s. The thesis of this essay is that the white Australia policy wouldn’t be of the same short-term effectiveness if the Australian Government hadn't implemented the use of media…