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Fallacies

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    What is a Hasty Generalization?
    Jumping to conclusions without enough evidence and/or sampled evidence is not representative (bases for stereotyping)
    Arguing that X is like Y when X and Y are not comparable; analogies can be used as helpful illustrations of the unfamiliar
    Meaning "It does not follow”; a gap in deductive reasoning the conclusion does not follow because the minor premise is irrelevant evidence for an unstated and/or questionable major premise
    Just because something has always been so or thought to be so does not make it good and right
  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    What is an example of a Hasty Generalization fallacy? 
    "I should be getting an A in writing class-I got an A in my anatomy class last winter."
    "Either we raise taxes or the Social Security fund will go bankrupt."
    "Playing sports makes people more aggressive. Look at all those fights at hockey and basketball games!"
    "If I can balance my checkbook why can't the Congress balance the budget?"
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    What is a Faulty Use of Authority fallacy?
    Faulty prediction; If we allow x than it a disastrous sequence of events will follow
    The person is not an expert on the issue they are talking about. They are biased or unnamed 
    To deliberately simplify, diminish and distort the opposition's view, making the opponent easier to smash
    Shifting the blame by claiming someone, typically the opposition, is wrong in another way, which does not prove why one is right
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