PHIL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lee Harvey Oswald, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fallacy
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Fallacy: a common type of bad argument: appeal to lack of counterevidence (ignorance): a kind of argument that tries to justify a conclusion just based on the fact that the counterevidence is bad. After president john f. kennedy was assassinated, people came up with many different theories about who killed jfk. Oswald did it he was the person who was arrested for killing jfk. Other people think the mafia did it, or that vp lyndon johnson had him killed. None of these theories have ever been proved. There is not enough evidence to be sure who was responsible for killing. Jfk: appeal to false authority: an argument which says that you should accept some idea just because a person says so. I got a forwarded email about a young girl with cancer. It says that the more people who receive the email, the more likely she is to get better.
