PHIL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Fallacy, Begging
26 May 2020
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More evidential fallacies cont"d: fallacy of appeal to popular opinion, everybody believes that p. Procedural or dialectical fallacies: fallacies related to the practice of arguing: begging the question (circular reasoning), p, q, r. But believe me, such terrorists would shoot our soldiers if they had the chance. For anyone with common sense it is obvious that you kill the terrorists before they kill you. Procedural or dialectical fallacies (cont"d: persuasive definition/slanting language, and a non sequitur, at issue is whether someone who just picks up ammunition should be considered a. "terrorist": moreover, the appeal to "common sense" is a red flag; it simply does not follow that one should kill even a known enemy at every opportunity. Procedural or dialectical fallacies (cont"d: capital punishment is wrong. The fact that a court orders a murder doesn"t make it okay. : the term murder" just means wrongful killing.
