Saturday, October 23, 2010

Further discussion

A concept which I feel needs further discussion are fallacies. Our book talks about many kinds of different fallacies. I however feel that it does not go into enough depth and can even be a little confusing. What I mean by confusing is that some of the examples used in the book are not clear enough. i therefore wanted to use this assignment to make more research on what the different fallacies all are and how they can come in handy.
I found this website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/fallacies.html
The website provides a definition for every kind of fallacies and uses examples for each one which were i thought, cleared than the ones in our book. The website goes over Ad Hominem fallacies, fallacies of false cause, straw man fallacies, appeal to ignorance, appeal to emotion, etc.
Overall I feel that the website really helped me understand what the different fallacies are and how to use them. The book also goes over the different kinds of fallacies but does it in a very unorganized way. The different fallacies are all over the place which makes it harder to fully understand what their differences and meanings are.

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