There are many common fallacies that are used in any
argument. As I went over some examples, I realized that many people use
fallacies to win arguments or just to mess with me. It was shocking when I
started labeling the fallacies when people started using silly reasoning.
Last week I was discussing the company Microsoft- I said “wow
IB is quite challenging.” Tom (this is not his/her real name) said “| want to
drop out of school…just like how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did, if they
did that, I can become a billionaire too. The result is that the conclusion of
the argument is not concerned with the same thing as the premise. They dropped
out of Harvard not ISL!
Another example is when someone said, if you are do not pray
to god you are against him. It is an example of false dilemma where some people
do not believe in god to even pray to him. It does not give any other options
it is just the absolute. This is an example of a false dilemma where you have
two choices. It is really funny how people use this so often. As Obi Wan Kenobi
puts it in Star Wars episode III, “Only a Sith deals in absolutes!”
Overall, learning about fallacies has been interesting. I
have started noticing teachers and my parents even using similar fallacies! It
has been an eye opener, I am definitely more conscious when presenting an
argument to make sure I avoid fallacies.
Reference: "False Dilemma." False Dilemma.
Archieboy Holdings, LLC. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
http://www.trulyfallacious.com/logic/logical-fallacies/presumption/hasty-generalization/attachment/equivocation-2
Funny example from your friend. Is he a genius? This is post hoc ergo procter hoc: they didn't become billionaires because they dropped out of school.
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