Essays on Logical Fallacies

One of the major themes in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was the focus on his future plans as a President. The President is trying to send a message to his audience that from now on he will put America first and all the American people will come first. His main strategy is “to buy American, hire American” (Trump Web). There was a number of logical fallacies that were used by Mr. Trump. One of them is hasty generalization: “America will start winning again, winning like never before” (Trump Web). It is the first day of his presidency and ...

Philosophy

A logical fallacy, in a broad sense, can be viewed as an error of reasoning. A fallacy is committed when a person tries to influence another person to take a particular position, based on flawed logic. Fallacious reasoning restrains people from thinking critically and knowing the truth, hence, making then susceptible to constant manipulation. As such, it is important to have the ability to recognize logical fallacies in the thought processes of other people to avoid making similar mistakes. In this paper, I will focus on one of the 17 logical fallacies that I provided in my initial presentation-argumentum ...

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias

Critical Thinking in Communication: Detecting Media Bias The issue of illegal immigration has been discussed for decades. State and federal legislation has been drafted in order to respond to the issue, however, these policies have had an insignificant effect on the flow of people coming into the country illegally. In addition to the anemic effect that laws related to illegal immigration have on solving the problem, politicians will commonly leverage the issue as a means to manipulate their own popularity. The divisive nature of the issue is such that the nature of proposed response can influence the voting decisions ...

The three logical fallacies will be taken from the speech at Trump Tower from Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump in June 2015 to declare himself as a candidate for the position of President of the United States of America (Trump, 2015). The first logical fallacy delivered in the speech was related to Trump claiming that his opponents declared themselves in the position of the President of US from rooms where Air conditioners were not working and these candidates are unsuitable to work as the executive head of the country and they would fail to defeat ISIS. This is clearly ...

The article on Teenage Drug Abuse-Surviving Teenage Drug Abuse by Juliana Breckinridge seeks to give reasons on why some teenagers decide to engage in drug abuse. It also seeks to highlight the challenges that parents of such children go through in trying to make them stop the habit and some of the strategies that they can employ to successfully accomplish this. The article also gives some of the reasons why it is not easy for parents to achieve this mainly because they have to raise their children in a world where drugs are highly available and they can be ...

The expression of personal opinions can lead to the emergence of truth or fallacious claims. The way people chose to speak determines the reaction of the listener in various ways. Logical fallacy or formal fallacies mean a flaw in reasoning or thought about something. It means coming up with reason but lacks enough arguments to support the reason. In logical fallacies as scare tactics, it means using fallacies to inflict fear. Logical fallacies used as scare tactics and appeal to force are common in day to day lives from childhood to adulthood. The logical fallacy for scare tactics has ...