ENGL 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Historical Criticism, Ad Hominem, False Dilemma

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 153
• Professor: George Grinnell

Document Summary

Detecting logical fallacies: post hoc, definition, this get its name from the latin phrase post hoc, ergo propter hoc which means after this, therefore because of this . Assuming that because b comes after a, a caused b. sometimes, 2 events that look like they are related in time are not really related as cause and event = correlation isn"t the same as causation. The arguer claims that some sort of chain reaction, that usually ends in some dire consequence, will occur but there is not enough evidence for that assumption. The arguer asserts that if one takes even a single step onto the. Slippery slope , they will slide all the way down the bottom; the arguer assumes that the person cannot stop halfway down the slope. One way of making our arguments stronger is to anticipate and response in advance to the potential arguments an opponent could make.