The discussion of C3 was intended merely as a (clear) example of the junk knowledge phenomenon. Once that lesson – that junk knowledge is a thing, so to speak – has been learned, C3 drops out of the argumentative picture. Even if there are important differences between C3 on one side ...
One example of this is from the movie “Red Tails”, when the main character Lightening fought a German plane from the front to kill the enemy, while at the same time risking his life. Another example of heroic adversity is from the movie “The Great Gatsby”, when the main character ...
Snowden is exactly in the same place as Julius Rosenberg and some of his confederates in the Manhattan project, for example, believing that atomic power was too dangerous to only be available to the West, or that the Russians, as our wartime allies, were entitled to know. Or the Falcon &...
Speech acts can be factually or morally erroneous, offensive, ad hominem, and otherwise fallacious or poorly argued — all scholarly failures. Or they might not only suffer from fallacious arguments but also display failures of judgment, emotional calibration, or expression, all types of rhetorical ...
You’ll note in the last sentence, we try to tie a knot for a vision of stability that addresses both of their understandable needs. A couple of things to note: I’m giving an example here and you absolutely don’t have to do it like me. The most important thing is that folks feel...
An ad hominem (Latin for “to the man”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent’s argument. Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as an informal fallacy, more precisely an irrelevance. ...
For example,Barkboxis turning the overused phrase “We’ve got you covered” into a fun andplayful headline: “Our Pack Has Your Back.” 7. Touch Up Your Copy With a Slight Jot of Sarcasm Sarcasm is a potent weapon in the copywriting toolkit, if done right. Too much of it, and you...
The White House is an example of the first type of fact, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln of the second. The first type is more basic than the second because events are made up of things or of the actions of things. A state dinner is to be held at the White House. Such an...
Let’s use a concrete example of spending and taxing in the USA. As of 2022 the US government spends about $6T per year. About $4T of that comes from taxingexistingincome and assets. The other $2T comes from printing money (running a deficit). That $4T is money/value thatalready exi...
It’s not really coercion if it is not violent force.There’s no gun to the head of the patient who gets the vaccine and so it is a free choice. This is an argument which has no basis in law. So for example an employer could sexually harass an employee and that could be deemed ...