Logical Fallacies Definitions 1
Appealing to someone’s emotions in order to distract them from the truth.
What is Appeal to Pity?
To__________is to provide rational reasons for or against an idea or action with the intent to persuade.
What is ARGUE?
But officer paying this ticket is going to mean I can’t afford to give my kids a Christmas present?
What is APPEAL TO PITY?
This word means the “art and science of reasoning"
What is Logic?
The Latin Ad Fontem means what?
“to or from the fountain"
Using a celebrity or authority figure’s name to support an issue which is not really his or her expertise.
What is APPEAL TO ILLEGITIMATE AUTHORITY
An _______ is the topic under discussion. It is the thing that the argument is really about and the question that is the source of the argument.
What is ISSUE?
There are 4 questions we ask of every argument. Name the first one.
WHAT IS THE ISSUE AT HAND?
A commercial claims that a specific brand of cereal is the best way to start the day because athlete Michael Jordan says that it is what he eats every day for breakfast.
What is Appeal to Authority?
This word means “you to"
What is Tu Quoque?
An assertion must be true because many or most people believe it, or “if many believe so, it is so.”
What is MOB APPEAL?
What are the 4 AD FONTEM Fallacies?
Ad Hominem Abusive
Ad Hominem Circumstantial
Tu Quoque
Genetic Fallacy
Name any or all of the other 3 questions.
Q: Is the argument RELEVANT to the issue at hand?
Q: Is the argument assuming something it shouldn’t?
Q: Is the argument CLEAR?
“That no good, lousy, lying guy wants us to believe him?”
What is Ad Hominem ABUSIVE?
Latin for “to the man"
What is ad hominem?
Where someone encourages us to think his product would make us think his product would make us better, or stand out, from everybody else.
What is SNOB APPEAL
Name three of the six Emotion Fallacies
Appeal to Fear
Appeal to Pity
Mob Appeal
Snob Appeal
Appeal to Illegitimate Authority
Chronologigal Authority
What are the 3 Key concepts that all the fallacies are divided into?
RELEVANCE, PRESUMPTION, CLARITY
A commercial for a political candidate that argues that his opponent's support of amnesty for illegal immigrants will open our country to terrorism.
What is APPEAL TO FEAR?