AHSS*1250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Tu Quoque, Ad Hominem, Fallacy
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Two broad categories of fallacy include: irrelevant and unacceptable premises. Genetic fallacy is arguing that a claim is true or false based on its origin. The origin can affect the claim because the background of the person or where the claim comes from may provide reasons to sway the decision. The fallacy of composition argues that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. The error is thinking that the characteristics of the parts are somehow transferred to a whole, something that is not always the case. The 2 forms of the fallacy of division include itself in its composite form as well as in statistical. Appeals to the personage fallacious because the appeal could not be relevant, it could be wrong! The ad hominem is the tu quoque, it argues that a claim must be true or false just because of hypocris.