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YOU DID A FALLACY

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In the US it’s presidential election season. There are lots of people expounding upon about all kinds of high stakes topics: what’s best for you, the country, what’s gonna keep everyone safe, and successful. Candidates, pundits, your pals: making points, making promises, making arguments. In the course of the political proceedings ... I’ve seen plenty of the fallacies we’ve covered before on Idea Channel, but there are a few cropping up that we haven’t yet covered–so I thought we’d better. Today we’ll discuss the “Appeal to Emotion Fallacy,” the “Non-Sequitur Fallacy” the “Appeal to Nature Fallacy” and how you might be seeing them pop up in this election season. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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-- Non Sequiturs, aka Formal Fallacies --

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/76/Denying-a-Conjunct

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non_sequitur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct


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1:56 Nixon vs Kennedy photo - http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/08/politics/gallery/nixon/

2:25 Helen Lovejoy Think of the Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg

3:08 Salt Chart http://www.aarp.org/food/diet-nutrition/info-06-2010/less_salt_in_dailydiet.html

3:53 Non Sequitur definition https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur

7:45 Humes Law http://slideplayer.com/slide/5313429/

10:15 In Politics Sometimes Facts Don’t Matter
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874

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