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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Saturday December 1: Blog Quiz--Fallacy Voodoo
Hi Everyone--This will be your last quiz--Don't start weeping, I can email you more quizes over the Christmas break if you really miss them...I am a generous, generous soul...This quiz will be about fallacies, something we didn't have time to cover in our luxurious, spa-like, glamorous classroom, but a fun area you can explore more in argumentation (COMS 311).
Fallacies are flaws in the type of reasoning people sometimes use in rhetoric (trying to persuade another person). For instance, one way to "reason" with your audience during a speech is to use cause/effect: ie: carbon emmissions weaken the ozone, which then causes global warming. A valid line of reasoning...but the fallacy know as FAULTY causality might lead a speaker to say: Cheese has been eaten in nearly every warm country, so cheese must cause global warming. (Although cheese HAS truly caused me to buy larger jeans....) Get it?
Another fallacy in called "ad hominem" or "to the man" as in one of my fave films, School of Rock: "Now that, children, is how you stick it to the man"--Jack Black. In the ad-hominem fallacy, a speaker attacks a person INSTEAD of the real issue, ie: (what does ie. stand for anways????) ie: If Al Gore lost an election, why should we listen to HIM talk about global warming? See how ethos (credibility) distracts from the real issue?
Next is the "bandwagon fallacy" or "everybody's doing it"--fashion trends are a great way to remember this fallacy! People will spend a rediculous amount of money (except for your wise, wise teacher who buys them at thrift stores) on jeans, so have the current "it" brand--so when a speaker "reasons" with the audience buy saying: 79% of Americans believe in global warming, so you should too! --this is an example of the bandwagon fallacy in action. This fallacy was alive and well in the EVIL RHETORIC of Seventeen Magazine circa 1979 when lil' Sandra tried to use a REAL iron on hopelessly frizzy hair in order to fit in at Golden West Elementary School and escape her nickname: Mop-head. So sad
So, for your 15 point quiz, provide 3 short examples of people in your life that try to trick you with these fallacies, either celebrities, politicians, parents, friends, teachers, fashion industry, media, whatever...Although there are many more FUN fallacies to explore, for this quiz, the 3 fallacies again are: ad hominem, band wagon and faulty causation. Questions are welcome, and here is a site with more info: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
Fallacies are flaws in the type of reasoning people sometimes use in rhetoric (trying to persuade another person). For instance, one way to "reason" with your audience during a speech is to use cause/effect: ie: carbon emmissions weaken the ozone, which then causes global warming. A valid line of reasoning...but the fallacy know as FAULTY causality might lead a speaker to say: Cheese has been eaten in nearly every warm country, so cheese must cause global warming. (Although cheese HAS truly caused me to buy larger jeans....) Get it?
Another fallacy in called "ad hominem" or "to the man" as in one of my fave films, School of Rock: "Now that, children, is how you stick it to the man"--Jack Black. In the ad-hominem fallacy, a speaker attacks a person INSTEAD of the real issue, ie: (what does ie. stand for anways????) ie: If Al Gore lost an election, why should we listen to HIM talk about global warming? See how ethos (credibility) distracts from the real issue?
Next is the "bandwagon fallacy" or "everybody's doing it"--fashion trends are a great way to remember this fallacy! People will spend a rediculous amount of money (except for your wise, wise teacher who buys them at thrift stores) on jeans, so have the current "it" brand--so when a speaker "reasons" with the audience buy saying: 79% of Americans believe in global warming, so you should too! --this is an example of the bandwagon fallacy in action. This fallacy was alive and well in the EVIL RHETORIC of Seventeen Magazine circa 1979 when lil' Sandra tried to use a REAL iron on hopelessly frizzy hair in order to fit in at Golden West Elementary School and escape her nickname: Mop-head. So sad
So, for your 15 point quiz, provide 3 short examples of people in your life that try to trick you with these fallacies, either celebrities, politicians, parents, friends, teachers, fashion industry, media, whatever...Although there are many more FUN fallacies to explore, for this quiz, the 3 fallacies again are: ad hominem, band wagon and faulty causation. Questions are welcome, and here is a site with more info: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
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