PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ad Hominem, Acupuncture, Kwkw

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100W
• Professor: Michaela Lucas

Document Summary

Fallacy of composition: what"s true of the parts, true of the whole. (transferring the quality of the parts to the quality of the whole) I. e atoms are inanimate, so things made of atoms are also inanimate. Fallacy of division: what"s true of the whole is true of the parts. (transferring the quality of the whole to the quality of the parts) I. e the machine is heavy; all the parts are heavy. The building that he lives in is huge; the apartment that he lives in must be huge. Fallacy of equivocation: an operational term that is being used for different examples. The same word is being used but it means different things. I. e a feather is light, what is light cannot be dark. Fallacious appeal to popularity: using the popularity of a premise or proposition as evidence for its truthfulness. (not automatically fallacious depends on how it is used) I. e a lot of people like the new iphone.