Đỗ Thị Thanh Hoa

Name: Đỗ Thị Thanh Hoa

Group: 10e20

Entry 4

Argument Structures and Fallacies

Item 1

. Mr. Lee's views on Japanese culture are not to be trusted, because his parents were both killed by the Japanese army during World War II and that made him anti-Japanese all his life.

ð  fallacies of relevance : personal attack

Analysis: Mr. Lee’s views on Japanese culture is not related to the fact that his parents were killed by Japanese army. 

Source: http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/fallacy/ex-fallacy.php

Item 2:

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it in church or at home. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one, you can do the other.

= > Fallecies of presumption: slippery slope

Source: http://www.mesacc.edu/~jerol76351/102/exercises/lfx.html

Item 3

[In Wyoming, ranchers and the government have been feuding for years about reintroducing wolves into the areas around Yellowstone National Park. The ranchers contend that the wolves kill their livestock; the government argues that the wolves play an important role in the area’s ecology. ] Bumpersticker seen in Wyoming: Wolves, not cows!

= > Fallacies of presumption: false dilemma

Analysis: the conflict between the government and the ranchers makes people have to choose either wolves or cows. However, there might be more than two choices.

 Source: http://novella.mhhe.com/novella/QuizProcessingServlet