ENTRY 4
Analyzing
Argument
Item 1
“Every person is either wholly good or wholly
evil”
-Analysis:
+
Fallacies of Presumption( False Dilemma)
+This
statement shows that people in over the world are either wholly good or wholly
evil. This conclusion is false Dilemma because every person has both good
and bad points. Therefore, not people
absolutely are good and not people absolutely are bad. In our life, There still exists people who do both good things as well as wrong ones.
Item 2
“ Smoking marijuana definitely leads to heroin use. A
report by the U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics on a study of 2,213 hardcore
narcotic addicts in the Lexington, Kenturkey, Federal Hospital shows that 70.4
% smoked marijuana_before_taking heroin”
+Analysis:
+Fallacies of Presumption (Post-doc fallacy ).
Many people smoked
marijuana before taking heroin
Many
people are addicted to heroin
_________________________________________
Smoking
marijuana definitely leads to heroin use
Many addicts in
Federal Hospital, US smoked marijuana
before taking heroin and it is concluded that Smoking marijuana definitely
leads to heroin use. This is Post-doc because there are a lot of causes
resulting heroin use not only smoking marijuana before such as smoking
tobaco. Even they start using
heroin without smoking anything
before.
Item 3
A frustrated Ford owner says: “My car broke down today!
Fords are worthless pieces of garbage!”
-Analysis:
His car is
a Ford
His car
broke down today
His car is
worthless piece of garbage
_______________________________
Ford
cars are worthless pieces of garbage
+
Fallacies of Presumption ( hasty generalization)
+ From his broken car, he concludes that all
Fords are worthless pices of garbage. His conclusion is hasty generation
because there are many reasons cause his broken car as time-using . Moreover, from
only his broken car can not have enough evidence to conclude other Fords that are worthless pieces of
garbage as his car.
In item 3: I think the third premise should be " The car which broke down is worthless piece of garbage". You commit a spelling mistake, hasty generalization not " His conclusion is hasty generation ..." as you say.
Trả lờiXóaI agree with all your entry. However, in item 1, you should write structure argument. I suggest:
Trả lờiXóa-Structure of Argument:
Every person is either wholly good or wholly evil”
You are not wholly good
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You are wholly evil.
Your analysis is clear enough.
in 2nd it's post-hoc not post-doc fallacies
Trả lờiXóain item 2: i think it is also the hasty generation
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