Monday, March 4, 2013

Logical Fallacies



  1. Choose two logical fallacies
  2. , excluding the six listed above that are already well-covered in the reading. For each fallacy: (a) Name the fallacy (English or Latin name), (b) Describe the fallacy in your own words, and (c) Give an example: you may use everyday examples or describe a hypothetical argument that applies the fallacy. 
  1. Upload one link to a commercial, political ad, or short clip from a cartoon or television program, that illustrates any logical fallacy.  Name the fallacy and describe exactly how it's used in the video or print ad.  Please be considerate of appropriate content.
Spotlight: This Logical fallacy is basically when a person only focuses on one small portion of something larger based on what the media and entertainment tells them. For example, if someone says that all women are meant to stay at home to take care of the family, cook, clean, shop, etc... and that they are always getting into trouble, because that's what happens in the TV show "I Love Lucy". Clearly this is not true because that is only one TV show and not all women are like that. Furthermore, that particular show was mad in a time where men were considered to be superior to women. However, times have changed since then, therefore, this idea cannot be considered any longer.
Straw Man: This Logical Fallacy is when one person says something and then a second person does not pay attention to what that person originally said, and they completely change the original point into something completely different (often worse) and exaggerated from the original, and then they attack the new point. An example of this is when a child asks their mother if they can go to a party on Wednesday night. When the mother says no because the child is still in trouble for doing something else, and then the child says that the mother doesn't want them to have any fun because she hates them.

Commerical for Appeal to Common Belief: A lot of people believe that fast food is really bad for you, and in this commerical it is going to the extreme.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=QsZFsZw5jtU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQsZFsZw5jtU

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