MODR 1770 Lecture Notes - Robert Pickton, Fallacy, Naturalistic Fallacy
22 Jun 2014
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Lecture 5: thinking critically about fallacies: fallacy of composition & hasty generalization, atoms are invisible to the naked eye, therefore, i must be invisible since i am made up of atoms. Fallacy of composition: you wouldn"t catch me visiting rural areas of british columbia. Why, just took at robert pickton who murdered and dismembered some 27 women on his pig farm in b. c. A person assumes, without sufficient evidence, that one thing is the cause of another. Explains something in the present, takes from the past: slippery slope: The faulty assumption that if certain actions are permitted then all actions of -this type will soon be permissible. Explains something in the future series of events will happen: boss, fallacy of popular appeal: The snob appeal form of this fallacy involves the association of a certain idea with an elite group of people or a popular image: inappropriate appeal to authority.
