Logical fallacies

Imagine that person is bitten by a dog, but the owner does not want to accept responsibility. The owner first claims that he has no dog. But as the victim keeps insisting, the owner keeps changing his story to their dog is not dangerous, their dog is dangerous but did not harm anyone, then finally yes the dog hurt the victim but it was the victims fault. What has been described above is a series of tactics called the Four Dog Defense. Chemical companies and other manufacturers use this Four Dog…

The words “police brutality” have been thrown around quite constantly lately. You will hear such words when watching the news, on social media outlets, and through people’s conversations. So what is police brutality?, it 's when a police officer uses excessive force to detain a suspect or a criminal (sometimes even killing the person or seriously injuring them). There are many different viewpoints on the matter , but two have come up with their own arguments ( Michael P. Auerbach and Tracey M.…

The Single Story: In this single story, it is showing a mother’s normal day which consist of cleaning, cooking carpool, and taking care of kids. The husband pops up for a second but only to head off to work leaving the mom to take care of everything. She ends up having a heart attack which is what the commercial is about but it also portrays woman to have basic “woman” jobs. Rhetorical Strategies: Style: This clip uses a lot of visuals that indicate that woman are care takers and cleaners and…

article, “Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Always Wrong,” Ryan T. Anderson attempts to convey to citizens and policymakers that legalizing PAS across the country would be a grave mistake. However, Anderson’s argument is weak due to a series of logical fallacies…

In this paper, I will refute the argument over the legitimacy and importance of a liberal arts education for a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) major. My opponent makes the argument that a liberal arts education holds no importance to a student studying in the STEM field. His first premise (1) is that STEM majors do not need to take courses outside their major. His second premise (2) is that a liberal arts education lacks depth in required general education courses. His…

Predictably Irrational Based from Conventional Economics, the field of Economics that we have dealt extensively in the previous lessons of this course, we were able to apply the idea that human beings make rational decisions by exercising their logical reasoning through careful calculation and examination of every available option so that it will be able to lead them to the maximization of their personal benefit, be it in terms of happiness and/or wealth. However, this was contradicted by Dan…

Daniel J. Flynn’s argument of why “Football Does a Body Good” is extremely unconvincing. The evidence that he presents throughout the essay fails to debunk the counterargument of how dangerous football can be. The essay is full of statistics and examples of how football can positively benefit the readers- unfortunately all the facts that are shown are ineffective. He unsuccessfully argues toward the benefit of football by failing to present appeals to reason, having a lack in his credibility,…

Critical Thinking The good and bad reactions from the citizens----Can include their behavioural reactions and verbal feedback on social media. Any logical fallacy? Weed was introduced publicly in Chinese medical reference traditionally considered to date from 2737 BC, it’s uses spread from China to India and then to North Africa and reached Europe at least as early as 500 A.D. By mid-1930s marijuana was regulated as a drug in every state, including 35 states that adopted the Uniform State…

a man discussed his changing opinion of hip hop music that I did not previously. Then, later on in the paper when discussing the content, I introduced the study that was performed by a group of researchers that was cited in the paragraph. My logical fallacies were also brought up, and it was stated that I needed more examples,…

critical thinking to the Hanson article reveals a number of “thinking shortcomings”. He fails to successfully support his premise logically. Hanson’s point of view and apparent overconfidence seemingly lead him to make several critical reasoning or logical fallacies, primarily the use of false dichotomy and weak analogy. An evaluation of the information presented…