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
      • Fallacies that violate rules of rational argumentation (neither formal nor substantive)
        • strawman
        • red herring
          • diverting attention from one issues to another
        • circular reasoning

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