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Fallacy Summary and Application
A fallacy is a kind of argument which tends to persuade us, even though it is a bad argument, either because of the form, or because of the falsity of one of the premises in the argument. It should be noted that when we talk of committing a fallacy, it is not only the person offering the flawed argument who is at fault, but also the person who accepts the argument as being sound as well. ...
Ad Hominem
Also known as the fallacy of personal attack, it is committed when there is an attack on the person instead of on their ideas or of the position they are defending. This fallacy often works because arguments are often seen as a contest to be won instead of a search for truth. ... This fallacy occurs “when an arguer distorts an opponent’s argument or claim in order to make it easier to attack” (Bassham, 2002, p. ... This fallacy is usually premised as follows:
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Closely related to the straw man fallacy is the red herring fallacy which is committed when an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. ...
Slippery Slope
This is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. ...
Another example of the slippery slope fallacy was used when Clarence Darrow was testifying during The Scopes Trial, Day 2 of which the following is excerpt:
Darrow argues law is unconstitutional
Darrow - If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church.
Approximate Word count = 1552
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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