Thursday, September 15, 2011
Oooh you just said a __________
One subject that I found particularly interesting in these readings were the content fallacies from Chapter 11 of the Epstein text. I found this interesting because it listed a bunch of common mistakes or points of arguments that people make that are easily identifiable. Most of these I've seen used in personal arguments or in television, and some unfortunately I've even used. But because of the chapter's ability to easily refer to real-life situations, I found the concepts much easier than the current argument analyzing we've been doing in our reading and thus much more fun to read. An example of fallacies I enjoyed learning more about was things like Drawing the line, Phony refutation, False Dilemma, Slippery Slope, and etc. Now if I'm ever in an argument, I know that I'll be better equipped with knowing how to label the other person's content fallacy and I'll be able to professionally state them instead of generalizing and saying "nope. your wrong".
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I enjoyed reading your blog! I thought your blog was very entertaining and understandable. I also thought the content fallacies were very interesting to read about because we do encounter them every day in person or on television. I agree that we are all guilty of having arguments that contain multiple fallacies, but at least now we know what they are called! I also liked how you are going to “professionally state” these content fallacies in your everyday life to combat people with silly and irrational arguments. I think that is a very good idea and now I might consider doing that myself.
ReplyDeleteHello there illestv! Your “causal” blog was so easy to read and understand! I got to agree with you, I was also amazed at how many fallacies exist out there in the world. That means now, we are able to name the titles of these bad arguments people make these days on the radio, television, everyday arguments, etc. We have a better understanding of why such arguments are just simply not good enough to be a reasonable argument. To be honest, I've found out that I’ve also used these fallacies, but I bet everyone has…nobody’s perfect. I just never knew these bad arguments names.
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