PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tu Quoque, Slippery Slope, False Dilemma

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

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Appeal to ignorance no proof, so false. Tu quoque hypocrisy: of course, there"s a god! Throughout human history, every culture has had some sort of a: )t"s wrong to use animals for food and clothing. But aren"t your gloves and purse leather? believe in it, you"ll get intro trouble. Appeal to force (can be appeal to authority) children in other households. Therefore, for the sake of your children"s education, you should: )t"s ok to eat eggs every day, ) read about it in metro. Appeal to authority: the us shouldn"t undertake even tiny military operations in other countries. The way that it always happens is that such operations start out small, but then when objectives are not achieved, more troops are sent in, and this gradually leads to a bigger and bigger operation. Slippery slope fallacy: children in households that own a good encyclopedia in are more successful in school than, marijuana should be legalized.