Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Logical Fallacies! Pick a group's post and identify the fallacies in your response.

Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell
1. If you don’t cut down that tree, monkeys will inhabit it.
2. If you don’t return that quarter I lent you, you might walk into an unfortunate accident.
3. If you dry up the oceans, no one will drown.
4. I won’t do my math homework because my Calculus teacher’s German shepherd is a Nazi.
5. Your beautifully astounding intellect can clearly see the stunning superiority of our work.

Francisco, Kaitlin, C.V., Josh
1. That idiot doesn't know anything about the issue at hand.
2. Baseball is the most popular sport in the nation. Doyou watch it?
3. This is the most interesting man in the world, and hedrinks Dos Equis.
4. I played against some Brazilians and they werehorrible. All Brazilians must be this way.
5. He shouldn't be president, his cousin's a convict.

Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger
1. Having an iPhone is like winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Anyone who doesn't have an iPhone is a douche bag.
3. The only phone Harry Potter uses is an iPhone.
4. Don't be friends with him. His brother doesn't have an iPhone.
5. If Apple can make the iPhone, then we can make a car that runs on air.

Daniel Wermer, Ariana Espinosa, Andre Littot, Chris Robertson
1. When you see a dog who has no hope of finding a home you can either adopt one or they will all die in the streets.
2. If we don't stop using aerosols to do our hair every morning then all of the polar ice caps will melt causing the polar bears to die.
3. You should buy these worn out blue jeans because everyone else is getting them.
4. We should not spend time and money to rebuild New Orleans because it will only be destroyed again by the next passing hurricane.
5. If you spend the majority of your time in gang troubled neighborhoods, then you must also be a criminal yourself.

Alyssa Ninos, Paul Muegge-Granhol, Natasha Trujillo, Sarah Furlano
1. That idiot does not know what he is talking about.
2. Riding the bus gives you cancer.
3. Since everyone goes to a technical school, they all must be geeks.
4. Obama’s uncle received a DUI so the whole family must have drinking problems.
5. Everyone is buying Toshiba computers; we should also.
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15 comments:

  1. Charles RileySeptember 6, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    In Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell's fallacies, the fallacies that I think they used are as follows:
    1)Either-or
    2)Veiled Threat
    3)Oversimplification
    4)False Analogy
    5)Flattery

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  2. Kaitlyn GaglioSeptember 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM

    [Alyssa Ninos, Paul Muegge-Granhol, Natasha Trujillo, Sarah Furlano]
    1. Ad Hominem
    2. Veiled Threat
    3. Hasty Generalization
    4. Guilt By Association
    5. Bandwagon Appeal

    ReplyDelete
  3. Natasha TrujilloSeptember 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM

    Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger
    1.Non Sequitur
    2.Post Hoc Fallacy
    3.In Crowd Appeal
    4.Guilt by Association
    5.Oversimplification

    ReplyDelete
  4. CVSeptember 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger,
    1. Hasty Generalization
    2. Ad Hominem
    3. In crowd appeal
    4. Guilt by Association
    5. Bandwagon Appeal

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 9:31 AM

    Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell
    1. Either-Or
    2. Veiled Threat
    3. Oversimplification
    4. Non Sequitur
    5. Flattery

    ReplyDelete
  6. <3 Ari <3September 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    I think the following fallacies are the ones that Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell used:
    1. Either-Or
    2. Veiled Thret
    3. Oversimplification
    4. Non Sequitur
    5. Flattery

    ReplyDelete
  7. brian.ruskauffSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:42 AM

    Francisco, Kaitlin, C.V., Josh

    1. Ad Hominem
    2. Bandwagon Appeal
    3. False Authority
    4. Hasty Generalization
    5. Guilt by Association

    ReplyDelete
  8. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2011 at 6:24 PM

    Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger
    1 False Analogy
    2 Ad Hominem
    3 False Authority
    4 Guilt by Association
    5 Non Sequitur

    ReplyDelete
  9. BlazesignsSeptember 11, 2011 at 8:50 PM

    Daniel Wermer, Ariana Espinosa, Andre Littot, and Chris Robertson used these logical fallacies:

    1)either-or
    2)non-sequiter
    3)bandwagon appeal
    4)post-hoc
    5)guilt by association

    ReplyDelete
  10. dwermerSeptember 12, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger
    1 False Analogy
    2 Ad Hominem
    3 In crowd appeal
    4 Guilt by Association
    5 Bandwagon Appeal

    ReplyDelete
  11. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell
    1)Either Or
    2)Veiled Threat
    3)Oversimplification
    4)Guilt by Association
    5)Flattery

    ReplyDelete
  12. Francisco MendozaSeptember 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    Brian Ruskauff, Flannery Norton, Isaac Hostak, Alex Appell
    1. Either-or
    2. Veiled threat
    3. Oversimplification
    4. Guilt by association
    5. Flattery

    ReplyDelete
  13. DonovanSeptember 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    Alyssa Ninos, Paul Muegge-Granhol, Natasha Trujillo, Sarah Furlano:
    1. Ad-Hominem
    2. Post-Hoc Fallacy
    3. Hasty Generalization
    4. Guilt by Association
    5. Bandwagon Appeal

    ReplyDelete
  14. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    Francisco, Kaitlyn, C.V,, and Josh

    1. Ad Hominem
    2. Bandwagon Appeal
    3. False Authority
    4. Hasty Generalization
    5. Guilt by Association

    ReplyDelete
  15. SlackerSaviorSeptember 14, 2011 at 9:43 AM

    Alright, for Donovan May, Jordan Keeley, Conor Ward, Aaron Krueger
    1 False Analogy
    2 Ad Hominem
    3 In crowd appeal
    4 Guilt by Association
    5 Bandwagon Appeal

    ReplyDelete

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