Old school essay: Fallacy

Fallacy

Essay make-up work from oral exam

Nicole Roberts 5-10-11

A fallacy is mainly a false comparison, argument, or statement.
There are five more well known fallacies which are listed.

1. A red herring
2. Straw man           
3. Ad hominem
4. False equivalency
5. false dichotomy

A red herring is a distraction.
A straw man would be known as presenting someone else's argument, but then while doing this tearing it down, or maybe the abuse of logic.
An ad hominem would be to contact a human being to a thing, or to say something and without looking at the defects. For example:
“All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal."
This does not logically follow.
here is another one: All politicians are liars, and you're just another politician. Therefore, you're a liar and your arguments are not to be trusted." there.
A false equivalency is when you give a false comparison and you are not aloud to compare to other things which is in a way like...
A false Dichotomy which could be when you give two choices, as if these are the only choices you have to chose from.
For example:
       there are two ways to picking up trash from the ground.

1. By bending clear down where your nose touches your knees, and
2. When you do a cartwheel and when your hands hit the floor you grab the trash.

This is not a very great example, but you can easily tell those are not the only two choices in this example, for you can pick up trash with your toes, or by kicking it up into your hands, or with your hands by just slightly bending over. this one is more easily recognized but things you may not be so familiar to and that may be less ignowledgable. Which causes more confusing ones to mislead you.