Wednesday 9 May 2012

Logical Fallacies

Fallacies of Relevance: evidence used is relevant to the actual argument and often relies on psychology or emotion to affect audience. ie. bandwagon.
Fallacies of Components/Composition: reliance on one part of the "whole" being true (or false) therefore the rest is thus true (or false). ie. atoms are not visible to the naked eye; human are made of atoms ergo humans are not visible to the naked eye.
Fallacies Ambiguity: incorrect reasoning due to imprecise/incorrect use of language.
Fallacies of Omission: necessary information or data is left out in order to misdirect others.

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