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1 Examples of straw man fallacy in advertising current issue Aikin, Scott; Casey, John (March 2011). "Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men". Argumentation. Springer Netherlands. 25 (1): doi: /s y. ISSN. Zebedee: What is your view on the Christian God?. Download for Prezi Desktop Pro to edit and present offline (for Pro users). The Winning Argument. American Bar Association. pp ISBN. You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Oedipus is a strong-willed character that does not like to be proved wrong. At first, when the wise man does not reveal the truth, Oedipus keeps begging him. He finally uses straw man by saying that a blind man is not wise, particularly when Teiresias points at him as the cause of the tragedy befallen the citizens of Thebes. Ted: Biological evolution is both a theory and a fact. The use of the straw man device is very common in literature, history, political debates, advertising, and all those fields of life where arguments about highly charged emotional issues arise. Since it is an attempt to undermine the argument of an opponent, writers and speakers use it to belittle or weaken the opponent's position, to make it vulnerable to an argumentative attack. It could be annoyingly effective as, in response to this, the opponent may be lured into expressing something contradictory. What are your thoughts on Trump's criticism of the media even though he uses it get his messages across?. Houston, we have a problem! Oops. A firewall is blocking access

2 to Prezi content. Check out this article to learn more or contact your system administrator. Edwin: That is ridiculous! How can you possibly be absolutely certain that we evolved from pond scum!. Examples In many instances, the person committing the straw man fallacy highlights the most extreme position of the opposing side for example:. A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. [1]. TEIRESIAS:: Yea, I am free, strong in the strength of truth. A: We should relax the laws on beer. The reason why this is a straw man is because the way it was presented, and the statement at the end attacked Obama's statement even though we don't necessarily know the context of this statement. Romney's plan behind this video was to misrepresent what Obama was saying and turn it into a negative statement. In this commercial, Chevy uses a creative way to make you believe that their product is more dependable than a Ford truck. What are examples of STRAW MAN Fallacies in Famous Speeches?. TEIRESIAS: Thou, goading me against my will to speak.". What are examples of STRAW MAN Fallacies in Speeches and Advertising?. Definition and Examples of the Straw Man Fallacy. Mike: I don't believe in any gods, including the Christian one. A special type of Strawman, this occurs when a debater is arguing using a correlative (a statement that "all things are either A or not A") and their opponent attempts to redefine A such that all things that were previously excluded are now included. Bob: I can't believe some people. I'd never do anything like that with a domesticated horse, it's despicable. 5. Student tells his professor that he thinks some of Donald Trump's positions have merit. Professor says he can't believe that the student believes in support racism. Richie Rich says to one of his workers, "You just want a raise because you want more of our

3 company's money, and you're jealous of all rich people.". Zebedee: What is your view on the Christian God?. Enroll in the Mastering Logical Fallacies Online Course. Over 10 hours of video and interactive learning. Go beyond the book! A parent tells her daughter to eat her vegetables. The daughter replies, "You won't be happy until I'm a vegetarian.". Description: Substituting a person's actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument. Hello Sir, I read that when this fallacy occurs, this is the opposite of the desired "principle of charity". I have been told that I have committed the strawman fallacy. I do not want to commit this error again. How do I apply the "principle of charity" when dealing with a debate opponent? Practice: Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent. Person 2 restates person 1's claim (in a distorted way). Video transcript (music) Hi. I'm Joseph Wu, and I'm a philosophy graduate student at the University of Cambridge. In this video, I'll explain he Straw man Fallacy, an informal fallacy that comes up all the time. Let's start off with an example to see how it works. Suppose my friend Maureen presents the following argument: Premise 1: Advertisements for beer encourage TEEN drinking. Premise 2: TEEN drinking often has negative consequences. Conclusion: Therefore, advertisements for beer should be banned from TV And, let's say I respond with the following objection: "Well, yeah, but people will never give up drinking beer! They've been doing it for ages!" Is this a good response to Maureen's argument? No! Because Maureen never claims it would be a good idea to give up drinking beer. That's not her argument at all. In this scenario, I've committed the Straw Man fallacy since I've attacked a position that Maureen never advances. The Straw Man (or Straw Person) fallacy occurs when an opponent's position is misrepresented in order to make it easier to critique. Just like how a man made of straw is intended to resemble an actual man, a

4 Straw Man fallacy occurs when an opponent's position is presented in a way that resembles the original claim, but is not the actual claim advanced. It creates the illusion that a position has been refuted or critiqued by switching out the original position with a different one. To see this more clearly, Consider the following two claims: Advertisements for beer should be banned from TV. This is Maureen's original claim. People should stop drinking beer. This is my portrayal of Maureen's original claim. And these are two very different claims. Maureen only endorses the first one based on our conversation. However, my objection is to the second claim, which is much easier to refute. This is because the second claim is a very extreme view. It would take a lot of good arguments to convince others that people should stop drinking beer. But in our argument, I have improperly attributed th. A fallacy is an argument or belief based on erroneous reasoning. Straw man is one type of logical fallacy. Straw man occurs when someone argues that a person holds a view that is actually not what the other person believes. Instead, it is a distorted version of what the person believes. So, instead of attacking the person's actual statement or belief, it is the distorted version that is attacked. Hurley, P. J. (2011). A Concise Introduction to Logic. Cengage Learning. Ted: Actually, that is a gross misrepresentation of my assertion. I never claimed we evolved from pond scum. Unlike math and logic, science is based on empirical evidence and, therefore, a scientific fact is something that is confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent. The empirical evidence for the fact that biological evolution does occur falls into this category. If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. Stanley says: "I don't think TEENren should play on busy streets." Livingston replies: "I don't think we should be confining TEENren inside all the time.".

5 While most people will not be fooled by a blatant misrepresentation of their position, careful use of a strawman can make them defend a carefully undermined version of their position, allowing their opponent to apparently destroy them with a prepared rebuttal. Have a podcast or know someone who does? Putting on a conference? Dr. Bennett is available for interviews and public speaking events. Contact him directly here. Enter your address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by . Alice: Well, I say art is a word that refers to something that displays superior craftsmanship, and so this unmade bed isn't art, as anyone could make it. Alice: Health Insurance is too expensive. Something must be done to bring down the costs. The Accent Fallacy is a fallacy of ambiguity due to the different ways a word or syllable is emphasized or accented. Also called Accentus, Misleading Accent, and Prosody. Other researchers recommend characterizing a fallacy as a violation of the norms of good reasoning, the rules of critical discussion, dispute resolution, and adequate communication. The difficulty with this approach is that there is so much disagreement about how to characterize these norms. How do we defend the claim that an item of reasoning should be labeled as a particular fallacy? A major goal in the field of informal logic is provide some criteria for each fallacy. Schwartz presents the challenge this way: A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The list of fallacies below contains 224 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacious arguments should not be persuasive, but they too often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term "fallacy" is used even more broadly to

6 indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list below includes some fallacies of these sorts, but most are fallacies that involve kinds of errors made while arguing informally in natural language. Charges of fallacious reasoning always need to be justified. The burden of proof is on your shoulders when you claim that someone's reasoning is fallacious. Even if you do not explicitly give the proof, that is, give your reasons, it is your responsibility to be able to give it if challenged. Some researchers complain that all the above definitions of fallacy are too broad and do not distinguish between mere blunders and actual fallacies, the more serious errors. The importance of using the appropriate labels of the common fallacies is that they provide a more efficient way to communicate criticisms of someone's reasoning than if the labels are not used, assuming that the participants in the discussion do know the labels. De Sophisticis Elenchis (Sophistical Refutations), an appendix to the. Researchers disagree about how to define the very term "fallacy." Focusing just on fallacies in sense (a) above, namely fallacies of argumentation, some researchers define a fallacy as an argument that is deductively invalid or that has very little inductive strength. Because examples of false dilemma, inconsistent premises, and begging the question are valid arguments in this sense, this definition misses some standard fallacies. Other researchers say a fallacy is a mistake in an argument that arises from something other than merely false premises. But the false dilemma fallacy is due to false premises. Still other researchers define a fallacy as an argument that is not good. Good arguments are then defined as those that are deductively valid or inductively strong, and that contain only true, well-established premises, but are not question-begging. A complaint with this definition is that its requirement of truth would improperly lead to calling too much scientific reasoning fallacious; every time a new scientific

7 discovery caused scientists to label a previously well-established claim as false, all the scientists who used that claim as a premise would become fallacious reasoners. This consequence of the definition is acceptable to some researchers but not to others. Because informal reasoning regularly deals with hypothetical reasoning and with premises for which there is great disagreement about whether they are true or false, many researchers would relax the requirement that every premise must be true. One widely accepted definition defines a fallacious argument as one that either is deductively invalid or is inductively very weak or contains an unjustified premise or that ignores relevant evidence that is available and that should be known by the arguer. Finally, yet another theory of fallacy says a fallacy is a failure to provide adequate proof for a belief, the failure being disguised to make the proof look adequate. The first known systematic study of fallacies was due to Aristotle in his. A member of Congress is asked by a reporter if she is in favor of the President's new missile defense system, and she responds, "I'm in favor of a missile defense system that effectively defends America.". The discussion below that precedes the long alphabetical list of fallacies begins with an account of the ways in which the term "fallacy" is imprecise. Attention then turns to the number of competing and overlapping ways to classify fallacies of argumentation. For pedagogical purposes, researchers in the field of fallacies disagree about the following topics: which name of a fallacy is more helpful to students' understanding; whether some fallacies should be de-emphasized in favor of others; and which is the best taxonomy of the fallacies. Researchers in the field are also deeply divided about how to define the term "fallacy" itself, how to define certain fallacies, and whether any theory of fallacies at all should be pursued if that theory's goal is to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for distinguishing between fallacious and

8 non-fallacious reasoning generally. Analogously, there is doubt in the field of ethics regarding whether researchers should pursue the goal of providing necessary and sufficient conditions for distinguishing moral actions from immoral ones. It is commonly claimed that giving a fallacy a name and studying it will help the student identify the fallacy in the future and will steer them away from using the fallacy in their own reasoning. As Steven Pinker says in The Stuff of Thought (p. 129), The controversy here is the extent to which it is better to teach students what Schwartz calls "the critical instrument" than to teach the fallacy-label approach. Is the fallacy-label approach better for some kinds of fallacies than others? If so, which others? There are a number of competing and overlapping ways to classify fallacies of argumentation. For example, they can be classified as either formal or informal. A formal fallacy can be detected by examining the logical form of the reasoning, whereas an informal fallacy depends upon the content of the reasoning and possibly the purpose of the reasoning. That is, informal fallacies are errors of reasoning that cannot easily be expressed in our system of formal logic (such as symbolic, deductive, predicate logic). The list below contains very few formal fallacies. Fallacious arguments also can be classified as deductive or inductive, depending upon whether the fallacious argument is most properly assessed by deductive standards or instead by inductive standards. Deductive standards demand deductive validity, but inductive standards require inductive strength such as making the conclusion more likely. Fallacies can be divided into categories according to the psychological factors that lead people to use them, and they can also be divided into categories according to the epistemological or logical factors that cause the error. In the latter division there are three categories: (1) the reasoning is invalid but is presented as if it were a valid argument, or else it is inductively much weaker than it is presented

9 as being, (2) the argument has an unjustified premise, or (3) some relevant evidence has been ignored or suppressed. Regarding (2), a premise can be justified or warranted at a time even if we later learn that the premise was false, and it can be justified if we are reasoning about what would have happened even when we know it didn't happen. Real arguments are often embedded within a very long discussion. Richard Whately, one of the greatest of the 19th century researchers into informal logic, wisely said, "A very. The more frequent the error within public discussion and debate the more likely it is to have a name. That is one reason why there is no specific name for the fallacy of subtracting five from thirteen and concluding that the answer is seven, though the error is common. With an emphasis on the word "favor," her response is likely to be for the President's missile defense system. With an emphasis, instead, on the word "effectively," her remark is likely to be against the President's missile defense system. And by using neither emphasis long discussion is one of the most effective veils of Fallacy; a Fallacy, which when stated barely would not deceive a TEEN, may deceive half the world if. Another controversy involves the relationship between the fields of logic and rhetoric. In the field of rhetoric, the primary goal is to persuade the audience. The audience is not going to be persuaded by an otherwise good argument with true premises unless they believe those premises are true. Philosophers tend to de-emphasize this difference between rhetoric and informal logic, and they concentrate on arguments that should fail to convince the ideally rational reasoner rather than on arguments that are likely not to convince audiences who hold certain background beliefs. Given specific pedagogical goals, how pedagogically effective is this de-emphasis? Similar fallacies are often grouped together under a common name intended to bring out how the fallacies are similar. Here are three examples. Fallacies of relevance include

10 fallacies that occur due to reliance on an irrelevant reason. In addition, Ad Hominem, Appeal to Pity, and Affirming the Consequent are some other fallacies of relevance. Accent, Amphiboly and Equivocation are examples of fallacies of ambiguity. The fallacies of illegitimate presumption include Begging the Question, False Dilemma, No True Scotsman, Complex Question and Suppressed Evidence. Notice how these categories don't fall neatly into just one of the categories (1), (2), and (3) above. Topics. He listed thirteen types. After the Dark Ages, fallacies were again studied systematically in Medieval Europe. This is why so many fallacies have Latin names. The third major period of study of the fallacies began in the later twentieth century due to renewed interest from the disciplines of philosophy, logic, communication studies, rhetoric, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

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