MODR 1770 Lecture Notes - Profit Margin, Argument From Analogy, Syntactic Ambiguity
18 Oct 2012
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When an arguer overlooks key evidence, distorting and evading the facts. Observation is key; if the fallacy is a faulty analogy, and the analogy has to be physically observable. In step 6 of the test, you make a table outlining the similarities and dissimilarities between the two things. You take two events, and you assume there is a necessary connection between the two. (causal relationship between the two) If event a happened before event b, event a is responsible. Takes a cause, we should let faggots marry , because of x we have a chain of events, one of the chain eventually gets broke, because of that all of these undesirable events happen. The broken chain is the most lethal of the causes. The six steps of the test: isolate the conclusion, identify the premises, name the fallacy, define the criteria, show which of the premises this fallacy occurred, challenge the fallacy, explain how it happened,
