Entry 4_ Vũ Thị Thủy

ENTRY 4

                                      Analyzing arguments 

                                                 Item 1:

 

 Analysis:

If you use PANTENE PRO-V, you will have thick and strong hair  (If A, then B)

If you don't  use PANTENE PRO-V  (not A)

Therefore, you will not have thick and strong hair (not B)

 => Structural fallacy

 

                   Item 2:  

  

 Analysis:

You either love the country or leave it

You don't love the country

You must leave the country

 => Content fallacy: False dilemma

The picture offers only two choices: love the country or leave it. However, there are many choices such as : - leave it for reasons but still love it

              - don't love but don't hate

              - don't love but still live in it

 

                                                         Item 3: 

  Smith, who is from England, decides to attend graduate school at Ohio State University. He has never been to the US before. The day after he arrives, he is walking back from an orientation session and sees two white (albino) squirrels chasing each other around a tree. In his next letter home, he tells his family that American squirrels are white. 

 

Analysis: 

 Two white (albino) squirrels chasing each other around a tree

 All the American squirrels are alike

American squirrels are white. 

=> Fallacy of presumption: hasty generalization

 Smith has a conclusion about the American squirrels based on two white squirrels. However, two squirrels are not enough to present the whole population of American squirrels. This is a very small sample is taken from the whole population of American squirrels.

 

Sources: 

1. http://www.google.com.vn/imgres?um=1&hl=vi&sa=N&biw=910&bih=428&tbm=isch&tbnid=GrDvw68V-nahEM:&imgrefurl=http://www.advertolog.com/pantene/print-outdoor/tornado-11765405/&docid=0IuyU5gCUNqrAM&imgurl=http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_1176/1

2.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0063XYK6I/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=15684181&s=automotive

3. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html