Overview
Part 1
After watching my lecture video, answer the questions: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdnPmJgY-vs)Links to an external site.
What is a logical fallacy?
Why is a logical fallacy psychologically convincing, but not logically?
What are the three steps to evaluating logical fallacies?
What is the meaning of "genetic" in genetic fallacy?
What is the meaning of "ignorance" in an appeal to ignorance?
Answer the question on slide 24.
Part 2
Exercise 12.2: #2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 15
Exercise 12.3: (All questions without *)
Exercise 12.4: #1, 2, 8, and 9
For Exercises 12.2 and 12.3, for each question, do all three things in this order:
(1) identify the premises and conclusion;
(2) name fallacy; define fallacy (quote the definition from the textbook)
(3) explain why fallacy occurs
So, for example:
(1) P1: If I eat this lemony dessert thing, then I will eat hamburgers, chips, ice cream, and chocolate.
P2: If I eat hamburgers, chips, ice cream, and chocolate, then I will explode.
C: I'd better not eat this lemony dessert thing.
(2) slippery slope. "The fallacy of slippery slope is arguing, without good reasons that, taking a particular step will inevitably lead to a further, undesirable step (or steps)" (Vaughn, p. 294).
(3) There is no good reason to think that eating this lemony dessert thing (taking a particular step) will make me explode (inevitably lead to a further undesirable step.
Part 3
Answer each question (below) by doing all three steps:
(1) identify the premises and conclusion;
(2) name fallacy; define fallacy (quote the definition from the textbook)
(3) explain why fallacy occurs.
https://philosophy.hku.hk/think/fallacy/ex.phpLinks to an external site.