My Informal Argument

After exploring philosophy in this unit I actually found out that I really enjoy it. But, before reading and even starting the class I didn’t know much about philosophy, beside the fact that it was a class I was taking. I’ve heard the word many times before, but never thought about it in depth. I didn’t know how complex and deep philosophy could be. I didn’t even understand the word until after I had to google the definition. After reading, I realized it’s more than just a word and a very interesting topic to me. Now, after completing the module I realize that I knew what philosophy was all along. I just wasn’t able to match the idea with a single word. In simpler terms, philosophy is interesting to me and over the years I’ve developed my

There are no rules with informal logic. Examples of informal logic surround us everyday. An informal fallacy can be identified only by analyzing the content of an argument so it can affect inductive and deductive arguments. There is also formal logic which is the type that it referred to more in philosophy. It is powerful while analyzing an argument but could only be effective when all parties agree to the premises so if there is a disagreement over premises then informal logic will come into play. It is especially important to find common ground along with resolving any disagreement with formal logic. A formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning that is always wrong. An example could be saying that 1. Dogs are mammals, 2. Humans are mammals, 3. Therefore dogs are humans. Formal fallacy reasoning doesn’t end

I was working 30 hours a week on top of going to school full time and at this time I had a lot of homework and studying piling up. With deadlines coming closer and not being able to accomplish what I needed to I asked around to see if any of my co-workers could be able to cover one of my closing shifts that week. At the time we had a new girl who had been training for at least two weeks and she was a plausible candidate to take my shift and she was also my last result. At my job, we have to go to the manager to get our switches approved and the manager on duty the night of the shift didn’t want to approve my request. She was uncomfortable with it and didn’t want to close with a newer person so I went to my store manager with the issue. At first she was understanding but then quickly changed her mind and said the new girl could not cover my shift. My issue was that the girl did a closing shift the night before so I was confused as to why she couldn’t do the same shift the day after. This was a logical fallacy in my personal life because I had an issue and came up with a solution but my manager would not approve it because of her own selfish wants. So, instead of a simple solution to a small problem, a big issue arose and my manager had stressed herself out even more just because she said