• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

  Read the following sections for this week:Argument from Consequences (10)Straw Man (12) Appeal to Irrelevant Authority (14)Equivocation (16)False Dilemma (18)Not a Cause for a Cause (20)Try to think of a time you’ve seen these used or used them yourself (by accident, of course) in your own life. You will report this in the Discussion Board.

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  The Cohabitation Epidemic

  Attached Files:

  •  Cohabitation_Epidemic.pdf (171.094 KB)
  •  Fallacies in Writing.pdf (88.979 KB)

  Review the article and try to find 2-3 fallacies. Use “An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments” and the Fallacies in Writing Handout to help you. Explain where you found them, and how the fallacy applies to the text

Part 2

• Choose 2 “bad arguments” from the assigned pages and describe how you’ve seen them used (or used them yourself) in your own life.

Answer preview

Fallacies in the Cohabitation Epidemic Reading

Among the inconsistencies I noticed in the text is the false dichotomy fallacy. According to The writing center at UNC-Chapel Hill (n.d), a false dichotomy presents only two options to a matter, so the decision comes down to either one or the other. In the discussion of the issue of dichotomy, the author highlights numerous benefits of marriage over cohabitation among adults. The argument promotes the idea that adults can either cohabit ad…

 

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