BIOM 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wishful Thinking, Ad Hominem
19 Sep 2017
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A fallacy is an argument based on an error of reasoning. Comfort and warm feeling may come from traditional beliefs whether they are. Often no reason given as to why tradition is passed on, other than this is the true or false way it has always been done . Because it is a tradition doesn"t tell you why it is a wise one to a foolish one. the reasoning for the start of the tradition may no longer be known or may have been misunderstood. -- urging the acceptance of a position simply because a large number of people accept it. If tanning beds were really unsafe, millions of people wouldn"t use them every week: dogs have the cleanest animal mouths. Relevance is violated: the popularity as a belief, ad hominem (abusive ad hominem): ad hominem is being mean towards the person attacking an opponent"s character rather than answering his argument.
