AHSS*1250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Tu Quoque, Fallacy, Begging
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Classification of fallacies: irrelevant premises reasons not concerning conclusion, unacceptable premises - relevant premises but don"t support conclusion common fallacies. Informal fallacies: the need for judgement- deciding they validity is not easy, there are rules for deciding - look carefully at what is actually the issue. Genetic fallacy: arguing that a claim is true or false only because of its origin. Rejecting a claim by criticizing the person who makes it instead of the claim itself. Poisoning the well: discredit a person by saying something that will cause everything the person says to be discounted. The fallacy of composition: arguing that what is true of the parts of something must be true of the whole thing. Statistical arguments - faults in statistics, forgetting to include groups. Fallacy of division: arguing what is true of the whole must be true of the parts. The fallacy of equivocation: the use of a word in an argument that has 2 different senses.
