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Legalization Of Marijuana Medicinal Purposes
1,578 wordsWhen Olympic officials decided to give snowboarder Ross Rebagliati his gold medal back, the cheers drowned out the boos. It was a minor scandal involving a minor sport, but it spoke volumes about the world's shifting relationship with its favorite illicit drug. Marijuana. A decade ago, Rebagliati would have been ostracized regardless of whether cannabis was on the list of his sport's banned substances. What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticat...
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Marxism And The Labor Theory Of Value
4,888 words... list thinking. The second difficulty pertains to the hypocrisy of Roemer's view on consistency: it is one thing to level a charge of inconsistency against Marx's value theory, and quite another thing to claim that it is not useful to criticize the inconsistency of neoclassical utility and production functions - particularly when those inconsistencies are part and parcel of Roemer's own approach. The whole question of consistency is, in fact, far more complex than Roemer's focus on formal log...
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Decision Making Process Individual Or Group
854 wordsAn argument is fallacious when it contains one or more logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning (2002). When using critical thinking to make decisions, an individual or group needs to be aware of logical fallacies and how they relate to decision-making. Logical fallacies can be used to manipulate a situation and if a person or group does not recognize logical fallacies, the person or group can be manipulated during the decision-making process. This...
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North American Free Trade Agreement Logical Fallacies
1,185 wordsFallacy Summary and Application Paper The Questionable Cause Fallacy According to Wikipedia information, the Questionable Cause Fallacy is also known as non causa pro causa, causal fallacy or false cause. General structure of the Questionable Cause Fallacy is as follows: A and B are regularly associated Therefore A is the cause of B This fallacy is committed when somebody considers one thing causes the other because both of them are associated and regularly connected. To explain in other words i...
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One Can Find Newspapers And Magazines
1,274 wordsThere is nothing perfect in our world. If we look meticulously on different things from different angles we are able to see some defects in them. Newspapers and magazines are not exceptions from these rules. Even in well-known and authoritative editions one can find a number of logical fallacies. What is a logical fallacy? It is a technical flaw which makes an argument unsound or invalid. To prove this point I will try to find them in different newspapers and magazines on such subjects as aborti...
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Catastrophic Causation Person Feels Fallacy
654 wordsThe Fallacies of Irrational Thinking is the topic of this paper. To understand this concept you must first know the definition of the term fallacy. Fallacy is defined as deception, an error in logic, or an often plausible argument using false or invalid inference. In this course we learned that there were eight fallacies: perfection, approval, should, overgeneralization, causation, helplessness, and catastrophic causation. In this paper I will attempt to explain each of them. The fallacy of perf...
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Catastrophic Causation Person Feels Fallacy
650 wordsTo understand this concept you must first know the definition of the term fallacy. Fallacy is defined as deception, an error in logic, or an often plausible argument using false or invalid inference. In this course we learned that there were eight fallacies: perfection, approval, should, overgeneralization, causation, helplessness, and catastrophic causation. In this paper I will attempt to explain each of them. The fallacy of perfection is when a person that thinks that everything must be perfe...
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Lot Of Time Ethically Wrong
1,295 wordsIs There Any Informal Fallacy That One Is There Any Informal Fallacy That One Might Be Justified In Using, Or Is One Ethically Bound Never To Mislead Others On Purpose? Discuss This Question With Reference To Specific Fallacies. In order to determine whether a fallacy can be justified in using or is ethically wrong, one must examine the specific situation they are in and must study the consequences which they might face. Informal fallacies are not mistakes in the formal structure of an argument,...
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