{"id":10893,"date":"2021-07-04T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/04\/this-week-you-learned-about-logical-fallacies-and-how-the-use-of-flawed-arguments\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T22:22:29","slug":"this-week-you-learned-about-logical-fallacies-and-how-the-use-of-flawed-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/04\/this-week-you-learned-about-logical-fallacies-and-how-the-use-of-flawed-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"This week you learned about logical fallacies and how the use of flawed arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week you learned about logical fallacies and how the use of flawed arguments can easily compromise your credibility as a writer. The first step to avoiding logical fallacies in your own writing is learning how to identify them. <br \/>For this Critical Thinking exercise, you will find a minimum of two examples of logical fallacies on the news, on the internet, or any other outlet of communication (citing the source of this fallacy as appropriate); you could even make up your own hypothetical example if necessary. As you present the fallacies to the class, you will also analyze them: in other words, explain\u00a0what\u00a0the specific name of your fallacy is, and\u00a0why\u00a0your example is a logical fallacy. Other things to consider in your main post: <br \/>What can we imply about a speaker or writer whose arguments contain logical fallacies?\u00a0 <br \/>Does the presence of a logical fallacy in someone\u2019s argument immediately invalidate their general position on an issue? Why or why not? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week you learned about logical fallacies and how the use of flawed arguments can easily compromise your credibility as a writer. The first step to avoiding logical fallacies in your own writing is learning how to identify them. For this Critical Thinking exercise, you will find a minimum of two examples of logical fallacies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}