PPT-The Genetic Fallacy

Beth herold What is it The Genetic fallacy occurs when we refute a claim solely based upon its origins Also Known As Fallacy of Origins or Fallacy of Virtue Genetic accounts of an issue may be true and they may help illuminate the reasons why the issues has assumed its present form but they are irrelevant to its merits . (Really). Remember that a fallacy is just an invalid argument. An invalid argument is one where even if the premises are true, the conclusion can still be false. So there are lots of fallacies.. However, there are certain tricky patterns that often fool people. These patterns come to have names.. Cause & Effect. There are two important fallacies, where both assume that the timing of two variables relative to each other, in and of itself, is sufficient to establish that one is the cause and the other is the effect. This assumption is wrong.. © Oxford University Press. In This Chapter. Fallacies of Relevance . Fallacies of Unwarranted Assumption. Fallacies of Ambiguity or Diversion . Recognizing Fallacies in Ordinary Language. © Oxford University Press. Debate Education Network . The Quality of Arguments:. Fallacies. . Criteria for . Logical Assessment of Arguments. Standard of Acceptability. Standard of Relevance. Standard of Sufficiency. RSA Triangle. Remember that a fallacy is just an invalid argument. An invalid argument is one where even if the premises are true, the conclusion can still be false. So there are lots of fallacies.. However, there are certain tricky patterns that often fool people. These patterns come to have names.. that . Fallacy. Advanced Composition: . Critical Reasoning & Writing. If a language provides a label for a complex concept, that could make it easier to think about the concept, because the mind can handle it as a single package when juggling a set of ideas, rather than having to keep each of its components in the air separately. It can also give a concept an additional label in long-term memory, making it more easily . Continuing our foray into the world of Argument. Courtesy of: . http://. www.unc.edu. /. depts. /. wcweb. /handouts/. fallacies.html. (. Editited. ). What is Fallacy?. Fallacies are defects that weaken arguments.. Ruha. Benjamin, . Ph.D. . Princeton University. Department of African American Studies. Global Health & Health Policy, History of Science, . Center for Health &. . Wellbeing, Gender & Sexuality Studies, . Maddie Mount. Definition . This fallacy comes from assuming that because two things are alike in one way, they are alike in another way . Equation. X has property Y. Z is like X. Z therefore has property Y. More Unintended Consequences. Your first job after graduation is system administrator for a 200 person. privately held manufacturing company. . The president/owner sends this message to the employees:. Unit 1 Section A. FOREIGN LANGUAGE . TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS . AIR . FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERTISY. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that’s the. challenge.. There are two important fallacies, where both assume that the timing of two variables relative to each other, in and of itself, is sufficient to establish that one is the cause and the other is the effect. This assumption is wrong.. Definition. relating to or being the fallacy of arguing from temporal sequence to a causal relation. Modern Example. . I ate a loaf of bread, and got a cold a few days later. Therefore, I must have gotten sick from the bread I ate. . Jeffrey Frankel. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation & Growth. Harvard University.  . Trade Deficits and . the . Trump Administration. American Enterprise Institute,. Washington DC. September 15, .