Entry 4
IDENTIFYING ARGUMENT FALLACIES
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1. Item 1
“Martini:
Signora. Please stop being so sad. If
you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never
been unfaithful to my wife.”
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Source: Quoted from
“Under
the Tuscan sun” the movie.
In this
case, the mentioned woman, Frances was suffering from a heart-broken divorce,
and Martini is the man she just met. She found him so understanding and think
he could share with her a lot. The mutual relationship is not like love
(actually she found a real love at the end). While saying this, Martini just
wanted to share with her the sadness.
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Evaluation: This is a
form of Content Fallacies – Fallacies of Presumption, to be more specific, the
fallacy of Slippery Slope (insufficient premises leading to false premises)
You’re
being so sad. ---(1)-->
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(1)Hidden
premise: I love you/ don’t want to see you that sad.
(2) Insufficient
to conclude that: there are other ways to cheer a
woman up
(3) Making love to other woman is cheating your spouse
2. Item 2
“Abby Richter: I'm sorry, but Jack Magnun will no longer
be able to do 'The Ugly Truth', which should really come as no surprise because
men are completely unreliable. Take Mike Chadway, for instance. He up and quit
the show, without so much as a word. You think you know what men are going to
do. You think you know what men want to do, but when it comes right down to
that moment where they need to step up and, I don't know, make a move - they
chicken out.
Mike: Oh! I am all over this.
Abby Richter: The big strong brave men, that we've all been reading about in novels and watching in movies since we've been nine years old, - -that's a fallacy. They don't exist. Men are not strong. Men are not brave. Men, are afraid. Even if they have a moment in a hotel elevator and it's totally romantic and full of potential, men are incapable of copping to it because, why? Men are weak. “
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Source: Quoted from “The Ugly Truth” the
movie.
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Evaluation:
This is a type of hasty
generalization: From her own
experience of one man’s behavior – Mike Chadway - in a specific situation, Abby
Richter assumes that all men are not reliable. One man cannot represent all men
in this world to be judged.
3. Item 3
GM Robot Super Bowl Commercial
a)
Fallacy of Relevance - Appeal
to pity
The
advertisement uses the miserableness of a screwdriver machine having to deal
with many difficulties, which has nothing to do with the product or the
customers, to draw intention and sympathy from people.
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Fallacy of relevance because it offers irrelevant appeal, in particular, is
appeal to pity.
b)
Deductive Reasoning - Slippery
slope
This
advert is also fallacious for slippery slope because there are many steps to
produce a good car, and the screwing down process is just one initial minor
step of them. However, with just this one step, they guarantee the quality of
the product to be great.
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Good
screw machine → Good car
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→ It
does not explain how the first step leads to the others and leaves out a number
of steps between the two steps.
→ Slippery slope
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