Week 6 Day 1 - Fallacies III

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Published on February 23, 2021 7:03:27 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4g2LuJ7n1s

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Today we learned even more fallacies. There's a lot of them, but they'll be really useful if you go into politics or public relations as it will help you recognize them, or if you want to use your critical thinking skills for the powers of evil, will allow you to write effective political speeches.


Today we talked about these fallacies:


Strawman: Misportraying someone's argument to weaken it. Super common online, on TV, and in politics.
Ad Hominem: Attacking an argument by attacking the person making it instead

Tu Quoque: "You to". Appeal to hypocrisy. Responding by an argument by saying the person making it does it too.
Appeal to Ignorance: "I don't know why X therefore Y", or sometimes, "We can't prove X therefore Y." If you don't have any information, it's hard to deduce any conclusions from it at all.

Correlation is Causation: Saying that because two quantities vary together, they cause each other. For example, it has been claimed that home ownership makes people more wealthy because more homeowners are wealthy. However, it is the case that people with money tend to buy houses. Buying a house won't make you rich (most of the time).