Sunday, April 10, 2016

Examples of Fallacies

Bandwagon - appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.

Spongebob asks Patrick if "wumbo" is even a real word. Patrick responds by saying everyone knows what wumbo is . " It's 1st grade, Spongebob"

Anecdotal- using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics

Sandy argues that if Spongebob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick, and Squidward can last over 1 minutes on land it will prove that sea creatures are better than land creatures.

Composition/Division- assuming that what's true about one part of something, has to be applied to all or other parts of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Ye9O-LpuA (I'm really sad it wouldn't let me show this)

Squidward relates talking loud and sounding smart to playing instruments loud and sounding good.


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