Pathetic fallacy

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…

In 2010, Old Spice launched a series of humorous commercials featuring Isaiah Mustafa as “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.” They are incredibly successful commercials, albeit strange. Portrayed in them are grandiose and lavish lifestyles featuring costly belongings ranging from gondolas to horses to yachts. The commercials were an overnight success and quickly became a cultural phenomenon, generating significant word-of-mouth buzz online and offline. In its commercial, Old Spice…

It is invalid because Salviati detects a logical fallacy in the Aristotelian view. When Salviati asks Simplicio how he proves that the stone fell in a straight path beside the towers, Simplicio says that he can prove it “by the senses”. Salviati goes on to explain that the Aristotelians are committing the logical fallacy of petitio principii, which can be translated to “begging the question”. This means that the Aristotelians are assuming…

Fallacies surround us and we hear them every day, although we may not recognize them. A is begging the question because the person is saying that if those actions were illegal, they wouldn’t be prohibited by law, which is obvious, B is causal fallacy because he is saying that the team only won because of a lucky pair of socks, C is bandwagon fallacy because the manager said that because no one else complained, he must be the…

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…

One of the fallacies I found was slippery slope. Slippery slope is a fallacy that asserts some event such as the world ending must inevitably follow from lack of action by government. Greg Craven, the logician in the video states that there will be “sea level rising, entire coastal countries disappearing…

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…

Logical fallacies are part of everyday life, whether we notice them or not. Fallacies are the mistakes in our reasoning. One common fallacy is false analogy. In a false analogy, two objects, events or people that aren’t typically related, are shown to be similar. An example of this would be comparing object A to object B. If object A has property C, and object B has property C, objects A and B must be the same thing. An analogy fails when the two objects are different in a way which affects…

Logical fallacies are prominent in modern American culture; one place such fallacies are found, and more often than not, overlooked is in print ads. We see these advertisements in our day-to-day lives and allow them to influence our decisions but if we take a deeper look we may be dissatisfied with the underground message being conveyed, amongst other things. This advertisement centered on Alicia Silverstone provides us with a great example of logical fallacies found in modern advertising and…