Logical fallacies

perceived dangers of sugary drinks. However, the methods used by the DOHMH to promote its stance on public health through advertisements are ethically questionable at best. Their advertisements use various fallacies to manipulate the public into reducing their consumption of sugary drinks; a fallacy of single cause disguised as fact or an appeal to authority and emotion in place of evidence and data. These underhanded tactics violate the major underpinning and inherent value of a plural and just…

In Last Week Tonight’s episode on Net Neutrality John Oliver tried to appeal to the audience’s pathos and logos, or the emotional and logical sides of their personality. This episode for example, judging by the five points of basic source evaluation: accuracy, authority, and is mostly credible.The most evident appeal here is the appeal to emotion. Oliver’s number one goal on his show is to make the audience laugh. Yes, the show tries to get the news of certain situations to the public, but it…

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…

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like "Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady"(Old Spice) this commercial, for Old Spice, exhibits the ideal man. The reason behind this commercial is that if a man uses Old Spice body wash he will end up being the ideal man. As the Old Spice man says in the commercial. The commercial conveys the message that men who use Old Spice are to be more empowered, confident, and strong. The advertisement utilizes an emotional appeal over…

Aren’t fallacious arguments fallacious? Fallacies: According to me and up to my understanding fallacies are the statements or any argument made by us in debates, for which we don’t have proper reasoning. Fallacies can be true or false either. These are some of the fallacious arguments I found in the script of the film “12 angry men”. (1)There were 11 votes for guilty. It’s not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first. In this argument he is not…

bullshitter does not care about being logical or ethical. All they care about it is being correct, which is what the quote above supports. This is the fallacy to Appeal to Ignorance because he doesn’t prove himself as right, but rather the as opponent wrong. During a conversation with his son, Josh, Naylor takes the argument of which ice cream flavour is the best to the definition of liberty just for the sake of winning the argument. He also uses the fallacy Irrelevant Conclusion for this.…

the south to prove themselves worthy. The fact that the south felt it detrimental that football game was to be won besides being casted away as an underdog by the rest of the country, shows the south was not always the powerhouse it is today, a logical fallacy often over looked when facing today’s…

You can use these in everyday life to protect yourself against politicians, salespeople, diet books, doctors, and your own children. You can determine if someone is committing a fallacy and lower his or her trustworthiness. The three identifiers associated with logical fallacies are bad proof, wrong number of choices/bad conclusion, and disconnect between proof and conclusion. The introduction is the ethos part, which wins you the audience’s commonplace. This essentially wins…

persuader uses to assist their audience in making a decision. Chapter 14: Spot Fallacies The four major questions used to spot a fallacy are the validity of the proof, if there is a correct number of choices given, if the proof leads to the conclusion, and if the argument is relevant. Bad proofs, the wrong number of choices, and the disconnect between proof and conclusion are the three identifiers associated with logical fallacies. The False Comparison is a proof that incorrectly leads to a…

quote that increased his logos, Smith mentions that, “Every day, all around us, we see the consequences of silence manifest themselves in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide, and war” (Smith). This declaration is an example of the logical fallacy known as post ergo propter hoc, which literally means “after this, therefore because of this.” The inclusion of this statement expresses to the audience that silence is the cause of different types of cruelty in the world, which is an…