Lê Thị Nga_ Entry 4

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Entry 4

Argument structures and fallacies

Item1

https://www.google.com.vn/search?q=Using+structural+fallacy+in+advertisement&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=634&tbm=isch&tbs=simg

● Analysis

If you wear Nike shoes, you’ll play basketball best.

If you don’t wear Nike shoes

 

You’ll not play basketball best.

v Fallacy type

Stucture fallacy: Denying the antecedent

If A, then B

Not A

Therefore, not B

You may play basketball best, probably not because of wearing Nike shoes.

Item 2

“Either medicine can explain how Ms. Tina was cured, or it is a miracle. Medicine can't explain how she was cured. Therefore it is a miracle.”

                    http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/falsedilterm.htm

ð False Dilemma

● Analysis: There are not only 2 reasons to explain how Ms. Tina was cured (False Premise)

Item 3

http://mergy.org/2012/01/great-example-of-a-slippery-slope-argument-the-directtv-roadside-ditch-commercial

=> Slippery slope

● Analysis

1. When your cable company puts you on hold, you get angry.

      (Hidden premise: You are attentively watching cable TV)                                     

2. When you get angry, you go blow-off steam. (Insufficient to conclude that)                                   

3. When you go blow-off steam, accidents happen. (Insufficient to conclude that)

4. When accidents happen, you get an eye-patch. (Insufficient to conclude that)    

5. When you get an eye-patch, people think you’re tough. (Insufficient to conclude that)                                                

6. When people think you’re tough, people want to see how tough. (Insufficient to conclude that)

7. And when people want to see how tough, you wake-up in a roadside ditch. (Insufficient to conclude that)

8. Don’t wake-up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of cable. (Hidden premise: With the Direct TV, you’ll not wake-up in a roadside)