So since Professor Silliman talked about how we aren't using our blogs enough I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to throw up some more homework questions and we can all help each other out. More blog activity, hopefully clearer understandings of the problems, everybody's happy.
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Part 1
2. I wasn't sure if this one had no fallacy or if it was a weak analogy.
Part 2
7. I couldn't figure this one out. It seemed like it would be more of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy but I think I just wasn't reading the problem clearly or couldn't figure it out or something.
Part 3
2. I couldn't decide if this one was missing the point or oversimplified.
3. Is this one no fallacy? It seems like it could be ad hominem abusive but I'm not sure
5. Is this one no fallacy? I have no clue
10. I couldn't decide if this one was missing the point or red herring or maybe neither haha
15. Is this one no fallacy or weak analogy?
18. No fallacy?
19. Is this one no fallacy or is the relationship between airplanes and a rock concert a weak analogy?
21. This one drove me nuts. I tried to go through and figure out which ones it could be, I got; hasty generalization, missing the point, accident, or appeal to pity. After going through those I think that the appeal to pity is most likely.
26. Is this one accident or hasty generalization?
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks
I will give you the answers that I got for these questions. I am not saying that mine are right, I am just giving you something to compare to.
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2. Hasty Generalization
Part 2
7. False
Part 3
2. False Cause (non causa pro causa)
3. Argument Against the Person
5. No Fallacy
10. Missing the Point
15. Weak Analogy
18. No Fallacy
19. Weak Analogy
21. Appeal to the People
26. Accident
Like I said, I am no logic pro and therefore I do not know whether or not my answers are correct. I simply wanted to help you see someone else's answers as well as I wanted to help myself compare answers.
I agree with you on Part 3 # 2, 10, 19, and 26 but not 21. I think that this one is appeal to pity because the author is giving a sap story about the people in India, trying to gain compassion.
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