PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Straw Man, Lyme Disease, Hasty Generalization

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

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Logical fallacies (continued) me nothing but flawless performance: fallacies related to the adequacy of the premises, hasty generalization fallacy: drawing a conclusion about a whole group based on an inadequate sample of the group (insufficient sample) Eg: the french are snobby and rude. Eg: you should buy a dell computer. I rest my case. what i"m talking about. Eg: psychology majors are incredibly ignorant about human psychology. Believe me, i know lead to a further undesirable step(s) (aka: domino effect arguments/thin edge of the wedge) Eg: we absolutely must not lose the war in vietnam. If south vietnam falls to the communists, then thailand will fall to them. If thailand falls to them, the south korea will fall to them. Before you know it, all of south-east asia will be under the communist control. Eg: we must ban pornography in all of its forms.