Saturday, October 5, 2013
Logical Fallacies
Watch the following video:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-28-2007/immigrant-disease
Look at the different logical fallacies that you see in the video. Find a video, news article, or interview that has at least one of fallacies depicted in the video. Post a link to your found source, and then name and define the fallacy you noticed in your source.
Post your initial post by Wednesday, October 9th. Post your reply to a classmate by Friday, October 11th.
Your reply should address your classmate's source. Respond by listing at least one additional fallacy your classmate might have missed, and why you think the fallacy should be addressed, or respond by addressing whether or not you believe your classmate has rightly addressed his/her fallacy in his/her source.
As always, stay professional with your classmates.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TExF7sd2P1A
ReplyDeleteThis video shows numerous logical fallacies throughout the painful twelve minuets and thirty for seconds. The video clip includes the following ten logical fallacies, argument ad baculum fallacy, post hoc ergo propter hoc, false dichotomy, no true scotsmem, begging the question, argument from ignorance, argument from populum, argument ad verecundiam, argument ad hominem, strawman argument. I posted a link that helped me understand the logical fallacies that best fit my video clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjjwRL99fQ
In the first few seconds of the clip the speaker Jeff who is connected to the National Socialist Movement is using the argument ad baculum fallacy. He is threating his viewers and intimidating them to believe what he is saying is true and if they do not believe him then there will be serious consequences. Jeff goes on to use the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, because he believes high crimes are caused by illegal immigration based on his own opinion and observation. Another logical fallacy the speaker continues to use is the fallacy of argument ad hominem. He has a certain view of American history that is ludicrous and thinks that we should believe it too. There are many more examples to show all ten fallacies that I listed above throughout the video clip.
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ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/xWkZ_StRjU0
ReplyDeleteThis is a 41 seconds video clip showing the lack of discipline applied to a kid from his dad in this case. Some parents make excuses about the way they raise their children these days. The way a kid behaves with his/her parents, reflects the weak or strong method of education provided. The video clip shows a frustrated dad in a store wishing he never had his son. What is the answer to be found on this kid's behave? Why is this kid acting this way to his dad. Maybe a condom would have been the answer before the kid was conceived, but not after he was born. This might look funny, but in the end is a fact in our society.
I think you addressed your fallacy correctly. It took me a while to figure out why the kid was screaming and what this was leading too. I think you pointed the right fallacy on this video.
DeleteThank you for your input. I think the video shows its fallacy too. I hope that video clips likes this one can make parents to find the problem to correct their kids as well as to help them to be better citizens once they grow up.
Deletehttp://youtu.be/6MfiD2zt1I0
ReplyDeleteI turned to fox news to find some logical fallacies and it was not long before I found this gem. In this video the interviewer asks author Reza Aslan repeatedly why, as a Muslim, he would write a book about Jesus. Red herring, hasty generalization, and non sequitur fallacies can be found. I also think the fallacy either/or may apply because she poses the question that one can either be a Muslim or an expert on Christianity but not both.
I thought that this video was hilarious, the interviewer just could not fathom how a muslim could be interested in Jesus. But I agree with the logical fallacies you mentioned, I think that the fallacy, straw man can also apply she is oversimplifying the subject and not delving into the important details.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EXkss5TMH0
ReplyDeleteThis videos has different examples and commercials of fallacy, The first part shows an Isuzu vehicles going over traffic, over water, boats, and has this image that this vehicle is able to do anything. Truth is that the vehicles are not able to any of what came up on the video. Basically it tells people that by buying one of these vehicles they can do anything, and possibly make them great drivers. Half way through the video it also shows a commercial that shows a man wearing Old Spice, and by wearing this he can pass through all this dangerous situation and he does not fear, does not care, and pretends like nothing is happening, why? Because he is wearing OLD Spice, but if anyone was in a situation were he or she is being attack by alligators or hit by a bus would be in terrible condition if after wearing old spice. This is posing an idea to viewers that if you wear the old spice product that you can go through very bad experience and you will be just fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzEXqJLVmcI
ReplyDeleteThis video is a prime example of a logical fallacy, hasty generalization. On Fox and Friends one of the anchors makes a comment during a segment on National Taco Day. He assumes that a woman grew up on tacos because she was of Latin American descent, much like "all Mexicans are lepers".
http://www.kkk.com/
ReplyDeleteI went to the ku klux klan's main website and their opening message states that they seek to establish a world unified under love and acceptance, however, within the very same statement say that they also intend to keep it segregated, which in and of itself is impossible.
Yes, I agree, the website's home page was full of contradictions. I believe that red herring, straw man and definitely ad populum fallacies are all present.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZR3M7SQwA
ReplyDeleteThis particular video had a few fallacies that may be interpreted. At the very beginning as the guy is walking out of the restaurant he states he is tired of eating chick food, assuming that all chicks eat small portions of crap a man would not even consider swallowing. This type of fallacy is the hasty generalization fallacy. Although it could also be considered a sweeping generalization fallacy. Throughout the video he is singing about this great double stack burger referring to it as man food playing off of the bandwagon fallacy trying to persuade men to eat the burger because it is what men eat. I also believe there are also a few reductive fallacies in there. For instance there is a scene about halfway through of a guy breaking a cinder block with his fist while eating his burger. This is definitely oversimplifying cause and effect. I’ve never broken a brick while eating a double burger. I chose this because I feel all commercials have some sort of fallacy to them. In commercials, the product is supposed to be more appealing than any other product so the truth must be stretched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW8n6IRk1Fg
ReplyDeleteThis commercial sums up after 35 seconds of that the diet pill Xenadrine will make any consumer a believer that the pill works as long as they try it. Showing a group of half naked fit models so it looks as if taking the pill will make anyone loose wight and end up looking like one of the models. However there is no scientific proven facts included before the narrator concludes taking the pill will make them skinnier and a believer in the pill making it a logical fallacy.
I agree with you that the half-naked women do make the pill look like it works. How often do so many people watch these clips and buy them without even doing research first on them. I think facts are very important to know before believing too and good choice in the video clip.
DeleteI'm totally agree with you two, taking pills to have a body like that as a results, It is definitely a fallacy. Sadly many people believes in what they see without even searching the side effects of the positives results of taking a unknown product.
DeleteWhile the video displays several fallacies that the book talks about, I found a article in the Gazette telegraph Wednesday October 2, 2013 Response Overwhelms Marketplace shows the bandwagon fallacy. People rushed to buy insurance as soon as the affordable care act or Obamacare opened flooding call centers and websites across the nation.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find the article, but if people are actually all going out and doing something, that is not the bandwagon fallacy. When someone is trying to convince you of something by saying "well everybody else is doing it," that's the logical fallacy.
DeleteNow if the article was trying to convince the reader to go to the website by saying "all these millions of people came to the site and you should too," then the bandwagon fallacy would apply. But it sounds like the article was just covering the overwhelming response from the public and the number of people caused problems with the servers. Simply reporting something that happened is not an example of the bandwagon fallacy.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/09/3-million-obamacare-website-may-face-months-glitches-experts-warn/
ReplyDelete"$93M ObamaCare website may face months of glitches, experts warn"- from Foxnews.com
I believe a logical fallacy can be found in the title. It appeals to fear because it uses the word "warn". It also begs the questions: should we expect new software to work precisely and is there an amount of time in which to expect glitches? The entire article is based on one expert opinion that is not a certainty and it's treated as fact throughout.
Located within the article is a quote from John Boehner, Speaker of the House. I believe that both the hasty generalization and false authority apply. Just because he has a political title, does not give him any clout with software. He implied that it was a waste of money because it was nonoperational. The website was launched only one week ago which is inadequate time to know how well it will do in the long-run.
I think that this commerical can be either the bandwagon fallacy or maybe I might be wrong but the begging the question fallacy as well. Because the viewers will draw the conclusion that is expected as it is.
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