Entry 4_Trần Anh Quân

Item 1: Where's the beef

(Wendy's commercial 1984)

• Structural fallacy: Denying the antecedent

          If you buy Wendy's Hamburger, you will enjoy a big floppy Hamburger with  more beef and less bun. (if A, then B)
          If  you don't buy Wendy's Hamberger (not A), you won't have the chance to enjoy the great Hamburger with much beef. (Then not B)

         In fact, this advertisement is not true because other companies also produce great Hamburgers with high quality.

Item 2: Science Quote by Clarence Darrow 

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

• Fallacy of presumption: Slippery slope

         take a thing like evolution make it a crime to teach -> 

->teach it to many people at many places -> (insufficient conclusion)

-> ban books and newspapers -> (insufficient conclusion)

-> burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind (insufficient conclusion)

Item 3: Japp commercial

• Structural fallacy: Denying the atencedent

          The young man is strong (B) because Japp chocolate bar gives him extra power (A) (If A, then B)

          The old man doesn't eat Japp chocolate bar (Not A)

          Therefore he is very weak (Therefore not B)

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Sources:

Item 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0

Item 2: http://todayinsci.com/D/Darrow_Clarence/DarrowClarence-Quotations.htm

Item 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bn5RygdfJk