Pathetic fallacy

1. a. Retroactive interference occurs when more recent information gets in the way of when one is trying to recall older information. This new material interferes with remembering old information already stored in the long term memory (LTM). An example of this would be if an individual were to call his/her ex-girlfriend/boyfriend the new boyfriend/girlfriend’s name. This example shows that the recent name retroactively interferes with the previous name, which is evidently problematic for recall.…

leads to a false conclusion, is known as a "logical fallacy" (Floridi 318). Such errors are not only unprofessional but also misleading and unethical. For example, Donald Trump used the Ad Hominem fallacy when he made negative remarks on Megyn Kelly, named Hillary Clinton as "Crooked Hillary" and a "nasty woman", called Marco Rubio as “Little Marco", made fun of Carly Fiorina's face and called Bill Kristol a 'loser'. Ad Hominem is a logical fallacy where…

Fallacies are made in various arguments and speeches throughout history, in order to win an argument. In The march of the flag, given by Albert J. Beveridge, there are fallacies detected throughout the speech. Fallacies are incorporated throughout the speech in order to have the audience agree with Beveridge’s views on the superiority of white Christian Americans compared to other citizens in other countries who practice other religions and worship deities. In the opening of the speech,…

Harvard. Dr. Tierney seemingly provides an expert-based and useful argument on America’s use of military power. Unfortunately, Tierney’s argument, whether right or wrong must be discarded because it is based on flagrant fallacies in logic. The argument’s most egregious logic fallacy is appeal to emotions. By…

simplistic way of looking at information that not only does he tend to skew information but he uses what is called the Black and White logical fallacy. This is when “you presented two alternative states as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist” (Logical Fallacies). Most of what President-Elect Trump says is corrupted by this fallacy. He takes a controversial topic like immigration and says how you either pick him, who will keep your families safe or you choose Hillary who…

respond to fallacies that arise through dialogue? (pages 205-208) Earlier in on of the reading guides, I spoke about a debate about the presidential election. All though I was not directly involved in the debate, I was able to sit back and listen to the various sides. I noted that several people had fallacies within the argument. Although they were not aware, and before this class I would not either. These fallacies were not handled maybe how they should have. In these section I took…

Creditability changes perception. In today’s society people will listen and believe anything as long as they trust the source. In Josh Fox’s Gasland he builds this trust and creditability through the use of pathos. Viewers sympathize with the small town man from Pennsylvania whose peaceful lifestyle has been invaded by the negative effects of fracking. The interactions with fellow victims seem real and genuine; the audience begins to feel remorse for the health and well being of those affected.…

By taking a page for the Black and White fallacy a speaker can create ludicrous assumption which can be easy or tricky to ruft. Extremes such as "All A are B" and "No A are B" can be easily refuted, since all it takes is a single counterexample is deconstruct the extreme position. The other Straw…

Logical fallacies are the overall analysis of an argument or an message that is being shown. Fallacies are normally involved into many marketing methods, as well as, in the law. I began to explain these examples to my roommate on Friday night. I went through each logical fallacy and explained to her what they were, along with an example of each. The name of all the logical fallacies are as follows: Ad hominem argumentum, ad misericordiam argumentum, ad populum argument, bandwagon appeal, begging…

The logical fallacy she commits is begging the question. However this is wrong because a premise can’t beg the question. A person can only beg a question if they assume the conclusion in one of the premises. One premise has to be question begging because premise one…