Fallacy of the Day: Reader's Choice
Feb. 22nd, 2007 06:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichiganIf you've been enjoying this series so far, please give me your thoughts one or more of the following questions:
1. Which fallacy (already discussed or another I haven't touched on yet) is one you think you're most prone to commit?
2. Which fallacy is a pet peeve and/or one you run into often in discussions?
3. Which fallacy do you think is insidious and/or hard to counter when you run into it?
I think I probably am most prone to
Versions of "ad hominem" or "poisoning the well" (though I really try NOT to let myself do that) and "appeal to emotion." One of the reasons I started studying logic was that I would (and still do, to some extent) get over-excited and emotional when arguing a point, and I'm still a little quick to jump to injecting drama and emotion into an argument.
1. Which fallacy (already discussed or another I haven't touched on yet) is one you think you're most prone to commit?
2. Which fallacy is a pet peeve and/or one you run into often in discussions?
3. Which fallacy do you think is insidious and/or hard to counter when you run into it?
I think I probably am most prone to
Versions of "ad hominem" or "poisoning the well" (though I really try NOT to let myself do that) and "appeal to emotion." One of the reasons I started studying logic was that I would (and still do, to some extent) get over-excited and emotional when arguing a point, and I'm still a little quick to jump to injecting drama and emotion into an argument.
