Spotting A Fallacy In An Argument

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a great athletic program with good education. Stories use pop culture to prove a point and persuade your opponent. 44. The 4 questions that can help determine if there is a fallacy in an argument are the following: 1. Does the proof hold up? 2. Am I given the right number of choices? 3. Does the proof lead to the conclusion? 4. Who cares? By using these asking these questions to yourself every day, you can improve on spotting a fallacy in an argument, and produce your side of the argument full proof. 45. The 3 identifiers associated for spotting a fallacy are looking for bad proof, wrong number of choices, and disconnect between proof and conclusion. Bad proof includes three “sins:” false comparison, bad examples, and ignorance as proof. Wrong number of choices happens when you are given let’s say just two choices when many more are available. Disconnect between proof and conclusion occurs in which the proof fails to the conclusion. 46. An example of a false comparison is when you say that yellow is a fruit just because a banana is a fruit. Does yellow being a fruit make any sense? No, that’s why it’s a false comparison because you’re comparing two things that don’t make any sense together in the first place. 47. …show more content…

A bad example when you use a proofs that doesn’t depend on a reason or commonplace, and they don’t support the conclusion. Saying or thinking that that person Narguizian 9 did this thing, so everyone else like him will be able to do the same thing. An example of a bad example is thinking that all interns from Caltech are great just because the last one was. 48. Fallacy of ignorance is saying if we can’t prove it, then it cannot exist. Or if we can’t disprove it, then it must exist. An example of a fallacy of ignorance is “You can’t prove that there isn’t a mirror universe of our own, so there must be one out there

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