Week 4: Bad arguments and Fallacies
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- Created on: 25-04-17 16:45
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- Week 4: Bad arguments/ Fallacies (2)
- Types of Fallacies
- Informal / substantive - the flaw lies in the falsehood of an implicit premise
- ad hominem
- Abusive variant: attacking a person to justify an argument
- Circumstantial: Others benefitting or having vested interest in the matter
- tu quoque (you too) alleged hypocrisy, contradiction, inconsistency
- ad populum
- appeals to authority
- Casual fallicies
- false analogies
- slippery slope
- based on fear that once a step is taken in a direction, certain inevitable and catastrophic effects will happen.
- false dichotomies/ dilemmas
- ad hominem
- Fallacies that violate rules of rational argumentation (neither formal nor substantive)
- strawman
- red herring
- diverting attention from one issues to another
- circular reasoning
- Informal / substantive - the flaw lies in the falsehood of an implicit premise
- Types of Fallacies
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