Want to get notified of all questions as they are asked? Update your mail preferences and turn on "Instant Notification."
Hello! I am social psychologist and author, Bo Bennett. In this podcast, I take a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter. As of January 2020, this podcast is a collection of topics related to all of my books. Subscribe today and enjoy!
|
I believe that a look into the pattern of the argument and what kind of fallacies are commonly committed through this pattern is a little helpful.
Let's formalize the argument of person A: P1: Solving daytime cloud dispersal and nighttime rain to water the plants is something that people have found to be unbelievable when they heard about it the first time. P2: Speaking into a device in your hand and taking moving pictures and sending them to the other side of the world is something that people have found to be unbelievable when they heard about it the first time. Therefore: solving daytime cloud dispersal and nighttime rain to water the plants is achievable in the future just like speaking into a device in your hand and taking moving pictures and sending them to the other side of the world turned out to be achievable in the future. The pattern of this argument is to: a) State a claim/situation. b) State another claim/situation. c) State a common shared characteristic between the two claims/situations. d) Conclude, based on the common characteristic shared between the two claims/situations, that something else true of the latter claim/situation is also true of the former claim/situation. Arguments that follow such a pattern are mostly susceptible to either a weak analogy<> fallacy or a false equivalence<> fallacy. If you can point out certain differences between the two claims/situations that show that the two are disanalogous/not equivalent in a way that makes what is true of the latter claim (stated in b) not necessarily true of the former claim (stated in a) despite the common shared characteristic (stated in c), then you have shown the argument to be fallacious. |
answered on Thursday, Aug 15, 2019 03:23:46 AM by Abdulazeez |
Comments |
|
|
|
answered on Thursday, Aug 15, 2019 03:54:56 AM by Jim Cliff |
Comments |
|