Today, the inclimate weather kept the many away. Thanks to those who braved the stormy weather (smile). We reviewed 5 more of the exercises from Hacker and Dennis shared http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM
(This is the complete sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y)
Dennis tell us about the argument and the fallacy. You can post it here.
Homework is to bring in an example of one of the fallacies depicted in Chapter 6, also to complete WLTC Exercises 6A: 1-5 on page 145. If students want to answer more that's fine. We will complete them all between Tuesday and Thursday.
Next week we will continue in TKW and look more closely at inductive and deductive reasoning using Venn Diagrams (157-199).
I will email students graded responses to their Wise essays. Thanks for your patience.
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Dennis Foley
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
March 24th 2011
Visual Fallacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM
This skit is an example of the fallacy called Affirming the Consequent. This states that if a condition B is a consequence of condition A and it is true then condition A is true. In this example the fallacy is one mans argument (or contradiction) states that because he is contradicting he is arguing. Arguments do contain contradictions, however a contradiction by itself may not be an argument. Therefore the condition B does not necessarily imply A.