ENTRY 4
Argument Structures and Fallacies
ITEM 1:
The Chinese people have a natural talent for art. Two Chinese girls took an art course with me last semester, and they were the best students in the class.
Analysis:
Content Fallacies: Fallacies of presumption – Hasty generalization
The two girls took an art course and they were the best students in the class.
The two girls are Chinese.
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The Chinese people have a natural
talent for art.
What is true for the two members is not
true for the whole group. Therefore, the evidence about the two Chinese girls can not be the representatives of Chinese people that they have natural talent for art.
ITTEM 2:
Analysis:
Content Fallacies: Fallacy of Presumption - False dilemma
This picture gives only two choices: you have to either love America or leave it. In fact, there are
other choices which can be made such as:
+ you stay in America but not loving it.
+ you leave American but still loving it.
ITEM 3:
Analysis:
Content fallacies: Fallacy of Relevance - Appeal to popularity
In this above image, the young people (teenagers) are holding cell phones and talking to someone. They look very happy and excited. This image gives the viewers the feeling that it
is neccessary for them to have cell phones, otherwise they would be behind the trend.
Source:
1. : http://www.mdc.edu/kendall/collegeprep/documents2/COMMON%20FALLACIESrev.pdf
2. http://www.google.com.vn/imgres?q=love+it+or+leave+it&hl=vi&sa=X&biw=1366&bih=677&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=gSIU2tY18iOw7M:&imgrefurl=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/programming-love-it-or-leave-it.html&docid=WI17tcSUIUvH5M&imgurl=http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b012877707dd5970c-pi&w=400&h=442&ei=nmSST5zkFsitiQfCp-mSBA&zoom=1
3. : http://graceleegrace.wordpress.com/page/2/
Your entry is quite good. I agree with u about your detecting fallacies. However, I suggest that you should choose some items from sources without analyzing fallacies.
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ReplyDeleteI think your analysis in the first item is not really right. It should be:
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese people have a natural talent for art
Two girls took an art course with me last semester are Chinese
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They are very talent for art and they were the best student in class.
Content Fallacies (Fallacies of presumption – Hasty generalization) What is true for the two members is not true for the whole group. Actually, there is no evidence prove that the two Chinese girls represent of Chinese people’s talent for art.
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteAbout the item 1, I agree with Thùy Phương because as far as I'm concerned, the first need to be a general idea. The structure of this item is:
All S are P
a is P
Therefore, a is S