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In class this week we have been discussing Logical Fallacies. Logical Fallacies are simply an error in reasoning. Instead of trying to remember all the names for these fallacies you can simply just remember them as: unfair, wrong, irrelevant material, no support. There are many types of theses fallacies for example:

• Begging the question-claim is simply restated
• Red Herring-provides irrelevant and misleading support
• Non Sequitur-conclusion does not follow evidence
• Stacked evidence-evidence to only support one side of an issue

These are just f few examples to get a feel for what are fallacies. Now to better understand how these work and how to diagnose which ones are being used we watched a video on Old Spice with Bruce Campbell.

In this commercial it started off by saying stuff if you don't need "it" then you don't have "it" . During this commercial you don't really know what he is talking about. At first money came to my mind, then sex for some reason by the way he was talking. Then at the eld it shows an Old Spice logo to show they were talking about deodorant the whole time.

We examined this commercial in class and came up with the idea that a few fallacies were used like, Begging the Question when all he was talking about was "it". Then Red Herring because you have no idea what he is talking about but you come up with your own interpretation of what it is. Also Either-Or was used because if you don not wear Old Spice then you don not have "it".

Most things that you see on Television, read, and hear are logical fallacies. Even though you may not know it, if it is an argument then it has one of these fallacies in it. Most authors do not even know they are using them in their work until someone brings it up.

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Perspective on Argument Book p.260-263