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Logic And Argumentation Are Central To Persuasive Communication
1,820 wordsCommunication is an extremely important factor in our lives and much of the time is spent trying to persuade others towards our views. Logic and argumentation are central to persuasive communication. This document will outline the purpose of persuasive communication and its structure. Persuasive communication will be defined in a way that the main objective of persuasion is to convince the audience of the thesis, the thesis being the conclusion of a discourse. An integral part of persuasive comm...
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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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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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Economics In One Lesson
985 wordsEconomics in One Lesson By Henry Hazlitt Dan Gardner History of Economics 360 - 001 Dr. Smith March 8, 2005 Economics in One Lesson By Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt's book, Economics in one lesson, brings to perspective numerous topics that are mainstream issues in the economy today. His book breaks down in detail specific concepts that have their effects on the economy. Hazlitt explains topics such as war and the expenses, the tariff system, and productivity and the minimum wage laws. One concept...
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Evidence To Support Logical Fallacies
943 wordsCritical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making MGT 350 Abstract In my paper I will identify and define three fallacies. I will explain their significance in relation to the Critical Thinking process and discuss their application to Decision Making. Lastly, I will provide examples to illustrate each of the chosen fallacies. Fallacy of Personal Attack Critical Thinking is a method used especially for problem resolution, it involves listening to all sides and the careful consideration of every an...
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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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Analysis Of Michael Shermer Fallacies
1,466 wordsAnalysis of Michael Shermer's Fallacies In Why People Believe Wierd Things, Michael Shermer discusses many issues such as pseudoscience and superstition, which continue to permeate our modern society. He describes twenty five fallacies that have lead people to believe in things that are not true, and are often completely illogical. Two of these major fallacies include the idea that the unexplained is inexplicable, and that people do not correctly put the burden of proof where it belongs. These a...
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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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John The Baptist Art History
1,093 wordsArt history Caravaggio Stephanie Jacobs Art history 415 A Julie Plan 11 / 13 / 00 Rough Draft Caravaggio Michelangelo Mesh was born at Caravaggio in Lombardy on September 28, 1573. His childhood was lived in a quite atmosphere in the small town located between Brescia and Milan. Caravaggio became orphaned at a very young age, and coincidentally was sent to Milan to study painting. This is where his career started. During the Eighteen years between his arrival in Rome and his death, Caravaggio en...
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Ten Commandments Founding Fathers
869 wordsWhen responding to an article, it is logical to assume that one would like to come off as intelligent and well-spoken. This is difficult to achieve when fallacies are apparent in many varying fashions throughout the response. Fallacies have the effect of weakening a statement by simply making the writer appear uneducated. In the letter to editor entitled, Ten Commandments shouldn t be in schools which appears in The Paragraph, there are many different examples of fallacies which assume the undes...
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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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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Yin Yang
1,878 wordsexpense of the health system to many people and faltering mutual support networks, the positive effects of Qigong practice and the support networks resulting from membership will have been supportive for the spread of the Falun Gong. " However, the Falun Dafa is taught as a path which is more than just the practice of Qigong; is seen a way of life. 1 Founder Li Hongzhi (a. k. a. Master Li) has said that, in the past, its secrets were passed only from master to student. Hongzhi made the move...
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La Times Public Policy
549 wordsCLONING EDATORAL The recent scientific success of cloning is a controversial topic in todays world. The Los Angeles Time expresses many views on cloning in recent editorials. In an April, 1997 editorial Reproductive Research Far Outpaces Public Policy The Times interviewed both supporters and critics of cloning. One of those is Lawrence Gostin, President of Public Health at Georgetown University who is for cloning. John Cavanaugh-Okeefe, director of the bioethics arm of the Virginia-based Americ...
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Secondhand Smoke Logical Fallacies
535 wordsThe Health Risks of Secondhand Smoke Are Exaggerated, according to an article written by W. Kip Viscusi, which is published in 1997 in Smoking, Opposing Viewpoints. The article, is not effective. Not only are the sources of the evidence not clearly identified, but also Viscusi uses logical fallacies, and the organization is confusing. The first reason why Viscusi's article is not effective is that the sources of the evidence Viscusi uses are not clearly identified. To begin with Viscusi talks ab...
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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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Twenty Years Ago Golden Rule
1,127 wordsIs today s news a truthful account of the day s events? Is it a blatant attempt to guide the reader s reaction to keep interests high? Or do entertainment corporations trying to make a profit overrun today s news? Should there be certain standards of journalism in news today? To answer these questions, the reader must understand the definition of news. Jack Fuller best defines news as a report of what a news organization has recently learned about matters of some significance or interest to the ...
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Show Little Thought One Would Show Little Thought Poetry
2,583 wordsThe time has come to loot to hew and Eden Marjorie Milligan I was born in a warren of no great distinction in the vicinity of the middle hillbilly class. There, with progressive effort (gravity never sleeps), I will possibly grow quite old (the women do in my family), and indisputably shall I die. I am the daughter of an annually retired judge who has lived and worked inside the tawny leather bindings of jurisprudence for well over half a century. For this man words themselves have become palpab...
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