MODR 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syntactic Ambiguity, General Idea, Begging
19 May 2016
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A fallacy is a common pattern of mistaken reasoning meaning its reoccurring. Important to understand the fallacy lies more in the form of the argument than its truth. Sometimes an argument has the looks and the form of a fallacy but is in fact not a fallacy. On the test is a passage is given and if your asked indicate which fallacy or fallacies occur in this package display how in this passage the fallacy occurs . Explain with reference to the actual passage. Sometimes you can argue it"s not really a fallacy. Irrelevant attack on ones opponent as opposed their actual argument to try and dismiss them. Taking a personal shot at your opponent. Example - rob ford policies should be disregarded because of his crack cocaine habits. Passage doesn"t give you a good argument but rather is just an attack. Don"t actually talk about the policy: genetic fallacy.
