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1) Rhetorical Device: Tautology Actual Example from Debate: Tautology is the repetition of ideas. Carly Fiorina repeats the idea of resolving the tax issues now. “We have great conservative ideas from wonderful think tanks about how to reform the tax code. The problem is we never get it done. We have talked about tax reform in every single election for decades in it never happens and the politicians always say it’s so complicated nobody but a politician can understand it, the truth is this, the

Ad Hominem Ad Hominem comes from latin and means ‘against the man’, is a common fallacy that it is used to attack the person rather than their argument. It is a lazy and easy way to put down your opponent with poor reasoning and bad logic. It plays with people’s emotion. The attack can be true, but has no relevance to the claims of the argument and can bias the audience. Ad Hominem fallacies are often used in politics, media and court. One famous Ad Hominem fallacy was when President Clinton’s infidelity

This election cycle has already been hectic and irregular and we’re not even close to past the primaries. The number of debates that have been held on both sides is already staggeringly high. The GOP has already had twelve debates and the Democratic Party as already had eight. As we gradually approach the final primaries and see who will be pitted against who in the general election the Republican party, which started with a record number of candidates, is now whittled down to three and the Democrats

Jennifer Gleason AIU PHIL201-1203A-08 Introduction to Philosophy Sunday, June 24, 2012 Logical fallacies My whole paper will be over the logical fallacies and the examples I had made for each one. Now this all have to do with some kind of philosophy terms and what they truly mean but in my own words and examples. 1. Mere Assertion- Mere Assertion is when someone doesn’t want to give up an argument even known they can’t prove their right with no evidence. * Example: My daughter

equal.      The second fallacious argument, as the Ad Hominem. Which is that of attacking of the person instead of the his argument. This is because the list of grievances in the second part of the document. The redundancy of “He has--” with only judgment from the colonist point of view because of course they are not aware of the the Kings point of view because they are not the King. Therefore, the Ad Hominem is the correct argument in this case due to the attack towards King

The argument put forward by John Coleman, in his article “Global Warming Greatest Scam in History!”, is flawed mainly due to numerous logical fallacies. “Ad Hominem”, “Guilt by Association”, “Red Herring”, “Appeal to Irrelevant Authority”, “Hasty Generalization”, and “Genetic Fallacy” are some of the logical fallacies that can be observed to prevail in Coleman’s argument. As a consequence, the soundness, validity, clarity, reasoning and consistency of the whole article are insubstantial. Coleman’s

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states that he believes the boy is guilty because of the testimony given by the woman who lives across the street, Juror Eight employs an Ad Hominem fallacy when he responds to Juror Ten by asking, “ I’d like to ask you something: you don’t believe the boy’s story. How come you believe the woman’s? She’s one of them too, isn’t she? Juror Eight uses another Ad Hominem fallacy just after Juror Three admits he would like to pull the switch to electrocute the boy when Juror Eight reacts to this by saying

All people experience stereotypes, whether the stereotype is directed at them or they are the one with the stereotype. While stereotypes can assist in making logical decisions, the fallacies of stereotyping will influence us all unconsciously, can leave people with negative lingering effects, and also misrepresent the individual. The fallacies of stereotyping will mislead people due to the unconscious influence they have on us. In medicine, it is not uncommon to utilize stereotypes that are fact-based

The Blue-Collar Guy There is a Chinese proverb that says, “ Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” Steve Olson wrote an essay that talks about that very principle. He titled his essay “Year of the Blue-Collar Guys”. It is about the hard working blue collar guys (BCGs) living in America, but what was his purpose in writing about BCGs? What kind of modes of persuasion does he use to persuade his audience to his way of thinking? How does he respond to the opposing