Demonstrate your skill in identifying, analyzing and debunking fallacious arguments
This deliverable will allow you to demonstrate your skill in identifying, analyzing and debunking fallacious arguments. A friend has linked you to the following story on Facebook. The friend is convinced that the story is accurate and would like your opinion on it.
Demonstrate your skill in identifying, analyzing and debunking fallacious arguments
This deliverable will allow you to demonstrate your skill in identifying, analyzing and debunking fallacious arguments.
Instructions
A friend has linked you to the following story on Facebook. The friend is convinced that the story is accurate and would like your opinion on it.
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Read through the linked story and determine:
Why the article is fallacious.
Provide clear evidence why the article is fallacious.
Use APA style for the abstract and also include a properly-formatted reference for the article. Grammar and punctuation count.
More details;
Common fallacies
This article is a resource that you may want to return to as the fallacies discussed in it come up throughout the course. Do not feel that you need to read or master the entire article now. We have provided a related file for you to download.
We’ve discussed some of the deep-seated psychological obstacles to effective logical and critical thinking in the videos. This article sets out some more common ways in which arguments can go awry. The defects or fallacies presented here tend to be more straightforward than psychological obstacles posed by reasoning heuristics and biases.
They should, therefore, be easier to spot and combat. You will see though, that they are very common: keep an eye out for them in your local paper, online, or in arguments or discussions with friends or colleagues. One reason they’re common is that they can be quite effective! But if we offer or are convinced by a fallacious argument we will not be acting as good logical and critical thinkers.
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