Learning how to swim does not guarantee you won’t drown
Identifying Logical Fallacies
Discussion Forum 4.4 – Identifying Logical Fallacies
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Review the following list and determine the logical fallacy of each statement. Be sure to defend your choice of fallacy with reasoning. Before you begin, you should review the various fallacies – see attached PDF
- Learning how to swim does not guarantee you won’t drown. I’m 55 years old, have never learned to swim and I haven’t drowned.
- We need to pass a law that stupid people are not allowed to own pets.
- I’m aggravated with spaghetti sauce with vegetables. I love vegetables, but I don’t want them in my spaghetti sauce. Where’s our freedom going?
- Regarding the person who had to “tote” stuff at Wal-Mart; tote? Carry. What is wrong with people? You don’t “tote” stuff, you carry it.
- The English language is the only language that should be spoken in the open and none other. This is the United States of America.
- Those of us who are true taxpaying, working Americans need to stand up and demand that people should have certain education, I.Q. and income levels to be able to vote for president or any major political office.
- Anyone who thinks that interest in books is waning hasn’t paid much attention. I love the show Face the Nation and they recently had eight authors on!
- Isn’t it amazing that Savannah is ranked as 10 on America’s most snobbish city [list] and that 10 percent of Savannah’s population are Yankees?
- Obama shouldn’t go to Martha’s Vineyard. Every time he does, something major happens.
Task 1: Create a new discussion post on or before the required date/time. Develop a substantive main thread addressing each part of the prompt in full. Your initial thread should be at least length 300+ words and provide textual evidence from the corresponding reading. You should provide at least one direct quote from the source formatted in MLA Style. For more information about MLA Style, see the Purdue Online Writing Lab (Links to an external site.).
Subject: English
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