--10--FALLACIES:WHAT'S A FAULTY ARGUMENT?

 What's  A Faulty Argument?

  Of course the man's defense is absurd,but would you recognize his red herring fallacy?In order to make learning  assimilation easier  ,these fallacies will be present to you in two segments, beginning  with this cheater.

Fallacies Of Trickery 

 Since the times of the Greeks ,fallacies  of reasoning  have been given names and categorized for study and identification  .When we learn the names and characteristic of these fallacies,we gain the following advantages:  

• We learn more about the rules for good reasoning  ;
• we avoid using them ourselves ;
• we are not influenced by arguments that contain  them.  

Fallacies That Use Language Trickery 

   Three fallacies seek to persuade by relying on deceptive language.They are called the fallacies or word ambiguity,misleading euphemisms ,and prejudicial language  .

Fallacies Involving Trickery With Emotions

   A sure sign of a poor argument is one smothered in a sauce of evaluative words . Word connotations 

convey evaluations that can be quickly  trigger emotions and invite a conspiracy of bias.Once a reader is flunked by them ,he or she may not even notice  a lack of sound supportive reasons. 

Emotional Appeals To Fear And Pity

1. What your best friends  won't  tell you..
2. Next time be safe with our fast call in service 
3. Did you think one insurance  coverage plan was enough ?
4. Are you still postponing  that alarm system?

Fallacies Using The Trickery of Distraction

   The  fallacies  of red herring pointing to other wrong ,straw man ,and circular reasoning  use the ploy of distraction. 

   Four other fallacies the red herring pointing to another wrong,using a straw man,and circular reasoning  classified  in may ways but what they all have in common is  a lack of support  for their arguments.

Red herring ;

 The red herring fallacy diverts our attention from the question at hand and throws us off track into irrelevances .

Pointing to another wrong

  This fallacy is also called two wrongs make a right because it assumes that two wrong cancel one other out .

Straw man 

   The straw man fallacy makes a false replica of an opposing argument then destroys it .It uses caricature ,ridicule ,and oversimplifications by way of refutation.

Circular Reasoning

  The fallacy of circular reasoning  is the assertion or repeated assertion of a conclusion without reasons being given to support the same conclusions.