14. The appeal to authority fallacy(诉诸权威谬误) When people misuse authority, this kind of fallacy can occur. Those who use this fallacy often put too much confidence into one person's opinions or thoughts. This is especially evident when this person is arguing s...
A fundamental reason why the Appeal to Authority can be a fallacy is that a proposition can be well supported only by facts and logically valid inferences. But by using an authority, the argument is relying upontestimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument and it is not a fact. T...
Examples: Appeal to Inappropriate Authority, Appeal to Celebrity. Language Fallacies (Verbal Fallacies): Fallacies that involve manipulation of language or ambiguity in an argument. Examples: Equivocation, Amphiboly. Misleading Vividness: A fallacy where a specific, vivid example is used to persuade, ev...
10 Appeal to ignorance An appeal to ignorance is a claim that something must be true because it hasn’t been proven false. It can also be a claim that something must be false because it hasn’t been proven true. This is also known as the burden of proof fallacy. Example: There must...
If you related to the first example given in this article of assuming you were going to get fired over a small mistake at work, then you may be able to identify with this logical fallacy. Another example of this would be an argument suggesting that if you don’t study every day of the...
But your room is messy too, so why should I listen to you? Child This is a textbook example. In discussions between a parent and a child there are different factors that affect the relevance of a claim, such as a parent's ...
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that ghosts don’t exist because there is no evidence to prove that they do exist, they arecommitting the argument to ignorance fallacy.One of the problems with the appeal to ignorance is that it can be used to support any claim,regardless of its validity. For example, someone could argue...
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13.Appeal to the Wrong Authority This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in subject S, then the argument will be fallacious Example: Dr. Johan Skarn, won the Nob...