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What is the fallacy? Don’t go to that shop, he will rip you off and most of his food is past the sell-by date? Come to mine instead! Ad hominem Circumstantial

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What is the fallacy?. Don’t go to that shop, he will rip you off and most of his food is past the sell-by date? Come to mine instead! Ad hominem Circumstantial. What is the fallacy?. Either you support Celtic or Rangers False Dilemma. What is the fallacy?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: What is the fallacy?

What is the fallacy?

Don’t go to that shop, he will rip you off and most of his food is past the sell-by date? Come to mine instead!

Ad hominem Circumstantial

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What is the fallacy?

Either you support Celtic or Rangers

False Dilemma

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What is the fallacy?

Lowering the speed limit outside schools will save lives.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

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What is the fallacy?

Of course there is no God! If there were someone would have found him by now?

Argument from ignorance

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What is the fallacy?

Richard Dawkins in a professor at Cambridge University. If he says there is no God then I believe him.

Appeals to authority

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What is the fallacy?

There just has to be a God otherwise the universe doesn’t make sense.

Appeals to Consequences

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What is the fallacy?

If we legalise cannabis then pretty soon we will need to legalise other drugs and then society will collapse.

Slippery Slope

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What is the fallacy?

The editor of the News of the World accuses politicians of spreading rumours about him.

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

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What is the fallacy?

‘Prostitutes are dirty slags. I would never pay for that’ – Wayne Rooney

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

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What is the fallacy?

Wayne Rooney looks like Shrek and is happy playing with a tyre attached to a rope. Jamie Oliver has Down’s Syndrome and doesn’t know one end of a spoon from the other. Celebrities are a waste of space.

Ad Hominem Abusive