15 Informal Fallacies

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In the essay 15 Logical Fallacies You Should Know Before Getting into a Debate, by David Ferrer. The author’s thesis is “Here’s a list of the 15 informal fallacies you are most likely to encounter in discussion and debate”. The thesis gives me an idea of what the essay will be about. Ad homiens insult others and attack with words to win an argument or bring a person down. As straw man are easily defeated and the people causing this often times do not realize the hurt they do. Both ad homiens and straw man can be alike because they both can attack a person’s view, position, and insult them without doing so on purpose. Ignorance is the case of stating something’s true, then turning around and saying that it is not. For example, saying witchcraft is definitely real then without proof, switch your position and say witchcraft is not real because there is no evidence to prove this case. There is no knowledge behind it and no evidence to support the claim, therefore it is a he said she said type of deal. Dilemma based arguments try to limit the options a person might have but when there are many options out there they prefer to take the effortless …show more content…

Many people do this in their everyday life making up excuses for something that is not important and taking it to the extreme. Circular Arguments are saying something is true just because you say so, or something declares it is true because that is what it states. People assuming things quickly without questioning it first or researching information on it before deciding. Hasty Generalization is making a statement without enough evidence to support it, it is like casual fallacy, which is assuming with no evidence. These are both similar because they are making judgments without collecting the evidence to make the correct decision on the topic at hand. Both the casual and hasty fallacies make their assumptions based on what is in front of them in that

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