CIS 111 Lecture 1: Fallacies

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Communications and Information Studies
• Course: CIS 111
• Professor: Gaur

Document Summary

Old tv shows are in black and white, so penguins are old tv shows. Hast generalization making generalization based on very little facts. 2 weightlifters i"ve met take steroids, so all weightlifters take steroids. Faulty causality after this, therefore because of this . The congress raised taxes and the rate of violent crime went up, so congress is responsible for the increase of crime rate. Equivocation ambiguous not clear sliding between 2 or more different meanings of a single word or phrase that is important to the argument. I know evolution is true because we see evolution happening all the time. Non sequitur a conclusion that doesn"t follow logically from preceding statements or that is based in irrelevant data. Mary loves children, so she will make an excellent teacher. False analogy assumption that because 2 things are alike in some respects, they are alike in others. It"s invisible, but it has the power to connect you to what you need.