The purpose of this essay is to dem onstrate that logic, far from being a d ry, pedantic subject, is a living, breat hing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. Logic may be an interesting su bject. The writer is exaggerating for th e sake of humor. The writer employs a ...
Homunculus fallacy– where a “middle-man” is used for explanation, this sometimes leads to regressive middle-men. Explains without actually explaining the real nature of a function or a process. Instead, it explains the concept in terms of the concept itself, without first defining or explainin...
The Sunk Cost Fallacy describes our tendency to follow through on an endeavor if we have already invested time, effort, or money into it, whether or not the current costs outweigh the benefits.
Here, the speaker selectively cites one scientist as if they were representing the whole of their field. However, this is not the case. The vast majority of climate scientists (97%to be exact) agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change. The appeal to authority doesn’t ...
1.Tohaveabasicknowledgeofthetermsinlogic 2.Tounderstandwhatloveisinanaffluentsociety 3.Toappreciatethehumorousandsatiricalwritingstyle 4.Toappreciatethelanguage TeachingFocus Therulesoflogic:tounderstandalltheeightfallaciesreferredinthetext.Theparticularwritingstyleoftheauthor.Thelight,humorous,yetimpressingwayof...
Point out the places where inversion occurs and explain the reason for the inversion. Ⅻ. One of the ways to achieve emphasis is to change the normal order of a sentence. Rewrite the following sentences by inverting sentence part: 1. I don't want sympathy! 2. He would not yield, though...
5.例外Accident- Ageneral rule is wronglyapplied to aspecific case where an exception should obviously be allowed.Kill people is wrong, but in a war. 6.*Straw Man稻草人- This involvestwo arguers.(interpretein a little changethayeasy to argue)The second arguer misinterprets误解or restates in...
A bandwagon fallacy is a logical fallacy in which a person reaches a conclusion only because it is a popular idea or belief and not for any logical reason related to the subject. This fallacy, also known as thebandwagon effect, gets its name from the expression ‘jumping on the bandwagon’...
TheSunk Cost Fallacyis a cognitive bias in behavioral finance where investors have a tendency to continue a strategy because of their reluctance to forego the capital, time, and effort invested to date. On the subject of investing, the sunk cost bias causes investors and market participants to ...
networking as such. I couldn’t help picturing her vigorously engaging with a medium like Twitter, firing off Tweets to relevant interlocutors –@karlmarx no, I think that’s where you’re wrong and dangerous: #history is not ‘made’ by men and #violence not the midwife for a new ...