Entry 4_ Lê Ngọc Xuân Mai

Entry 4_ Lê Ngọc Xuân Mai

ENTRY 4

Argument Structures and Fallacies

ITEM 1

“Don’t try to change me, accept me for who I am. You can either love me or hate me but I can only be me.”

Source: http://www.searchquotes.com/search/Love_Me_Or_Hate_Me/

–>False dilemma

Analysis: you give a choice between “love” or “hate “even though you have other choices such as “normal “

                                                  

ITEM 2

“A bear lives at the zoo, therefore, all bears live at zoos.”

–> Hasty generalization

Analysis:  false premise

                 A bear is the same all bears

                 A bear lives at the zoo

            ————————————–    

               Therefore, all bears live at zoos

 Source: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/i2rcs/i2rcs_docs/logic.htm

ITEM 3

          “If I make an exception for you then I have to make an exception for everyone.”

Source: http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/ss.htm

–> Slippery slope

Analysis: Speaker does not explain how the first event leads to the other.

“ If  I make an exception for you

 Everyone is equal to you

So, everyone has the right to ask me for an exception

If everyone ask me for an exception

Then I have to make an exception for everyone”