2 parts: What three fallacies are most common in your everyday life?

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This is a two part assignment.

#1: Identify Three Fallacies

Once you learn the names of the major logical fallacies, you will probably start noticing them all over the place, including in advertisements, movies, TV shows, and everyday conversations. This can be both fascinating and frustrating, but it can certainly help you to avoid certain pitfalls in reasoning that are unfortunately very common. This exercise gives you a chance to practice identifying fallacies as they occur in daily life.

Prepare: Read through Chapter 7 of the course text, paying special attention to learning the names of common fallacies, biases, and rhetorical tricks.

Reflect: Search through common media sources looking for examples of fallacies. Some common places to find fallacies include advertisements, opinion pieces in news media, and arguments about politics, religion, and other controversial issues. You may also notice fallacies in your daily life.

Write: Present three distinct informal logical fallacies you have discovered in these types of sources or in your life. Make sure to identify the specific fallacy committed by each example. Explain how the fallacies were used and the context in which they occurred. Finally, explain how the person should have presented the argument in order to avoid committing this logical error.

Must be at least 200 words

#2: Parking Garage and Biases

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Biases affect all of us, and we are all prone to committing fallacious reasoning at times. This discussion allows us to investigate some of our own sources of biases and ways in which we may be prone to fall for fallacious reasoning.

Prepare: Complete “The (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” and “ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” interactive modules. Read Chapters 8 of our book, paying special attention to ways in which people are affected by biases (including the sections “Stereotypes” and “Purpose and Potential Bias” in Chapter 8).

Reflect: Think about why you made the choices you made in each scenario. Do those choices tell you anything about yourself and the way that you think? Would you do anything different if you were to do it again?

Write: Based on your experiences in each scenario, address the following::

Part 1: Why did you take the route you did in the parking garage scenario? Did you notice that you had preconceptions about different types of people and situations? Could those types of preconceptions ever lead to problematic inferences?

Part 2: In the Buying a Car scenario, did you feel that the salesman had ulterior motives? Did they lead him to have any biases in terms of he wanted you to purchase? Point out some of the biases that you have in real life. Are you am interested party when it comes to certain types of questions? How does that potentially cloud your judgment? Relate your answer to the content about biases in Chapter 8.

Must be at least 200 words.

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Running head: FALLACIES AND BIASES

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Fallacies and Biases
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FALLACIES AND BIASNESS

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PART 1
Fallacies and biases
Fallacies refer to the illogical reasoning that clouds a person’s arguments. Fallacies are
part of our day to day lives in our conversations, reading materials, TVs among other sources. In
accordance to chapter 7, there are several types of fallacies that include the Begging the Question
which is one of the most common fallacies. Other fallacies include the Ad hominem, the Ad
ignorantum, and the Bandwagon fallacy among others. Each of these uniquely characterizes itself
with clouding personal arguments.
The Ad homin...


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