67 Logical Fallacies Explained in 11 Minutes

Fallacies—notes Pur­due’s Writ­ing Lab—“are com­mon errors in rea­son­ing that can beneath­mine the log­ic of your argu­ment. Fal­lac­i­es may be both ille­git­i­mate argu­ments or irrel­e­vant factors, and are sometimes iden­ti­fied as a result of they lack evi­dence that sup­ports their declare. Keep away from these com­mon fal­lac­i­es in your personal argu­ments and look ahead to them within the argu­ments of oth­ers.” Pur­due’s net­website then excessive­lights a num­ber of the boys­tal traps that stu­dents typically fall into—for examination­ple, the slip­pery slope, beg­ging the declare, cir­cu­lar argu­ments, the crimson her­ring, and extra. However if you’d like a rapid-fire intro­duc­tion to many extra log­i­cal fal­lac­i­es, look no fur­ther than the video above. In 11 min­utes, you’ll come throughout ones it’s possible you’ll not have recognized about earlier than—from the No True Scots­man and the Texas Sharp­shoot­er, to the Tu QuoQue and the Igno­ra­tio Elenchi. But it surely additionally has a while­much less ones we see day by day. Certainly who amongst us has­n’t expe­ri­enced the Sunk Value Fal­la­cy at work, or the Advert Hominem assault on TV?

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