Saturday, April 21, 2012

Entry4_ Đỗ Thị Nhàn


Item 1:

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America.  No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country.  For all of the challenges we face, we continue to have the best universities, some of the most productive workers, the most innovative companies, the most adventurous entrepreneurs on Earth.  What sets us apart is that we’ve always not just had the capacity, but also the will to act -- the determination to shape our future; the willingness in our democracy to work out our differences in a sensible way and to move forward, not just for this generation but for the next generation.  
Fallacies of presumption:
_False dilemma: There are not only two choices: Rise or fall ( false premise)
_Hasty generalization: ‘ we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country’,
Assuming that things will be unchanged overtime (false premise).
  
 
Item 2:




_Fallacies of relevance: Appeal to popularity: Everyone think that 100% fresh and pure milk is best for health.
The advertisement tries to make people like vinamilk.
_ Fallacies of ambiguity: The advertisement says that Vinamilk is 100%fresh and pure milk but it doesn’t provide where and how this finger comes from. Therefore it is not convincing enough. 

 
Item 3:     


 
                      
Hasty generalization: Listerine kills germs and also eliminates bad breath. But you  will have 24 hour protection, but right next to that it says that you need to use it 2x a day for it to be that effective.
One day has 24 hour.
Listerine kills gems and also eliminate bad breath.
Listerine works for 12 hour.
Use Listerine 2 times a day.
ð      =>You have 24 hour protection.

6 comments:

  1. -As far as i'm concerned, there is no fallacy in your first item at all:
    + "market will rise or fall":I think in this statement the author just wants to show the nature of the market in general.
    + And I don't think:"we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country" is hasty generalization, either.Because after this sentence the author indicates clearly factors which demonstrate the US'development.
    - In terms of iterm 3: in my opinion,your analysis is not clear enough, so I couldn't see the fallacy of hasty generalization in this argument.

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  2. i think in ur item 3, the poster ads is OK and i do not find anything having argument errors!

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  3. - In my opinion, I also suppose that all your three items don't have any argument fallacies.
    - in your item 2, I don't think it has fallacies of relevance (Appeal to popularity because this advertisement just show that Vinamilk is 100%fresh and pure, not everyone's thought. And I also can't detect fallacies of ambiguity in this advertisement.

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  4. in item 3, it doesn't have the fallacy of relevance: Appeal to popularity. It is the ads that show Vinamilk is 100% fresh and pure to convince the consumer, not the consumers' thought. And about ambiguity, i think the picture of the cow is clear enough :-?

    Tuong Vi

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  5. hi. in your item 3, I also think that it has no fallacy at all. Hasty generalization is when you suppose what is true for someone is also true for the whole group. However, I can't find anything the author means that all people will have protection thanks to Listerine

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  6. item 3: i think it is not hasty generalization

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