Entry4_ Nguyen Thuy Linh

Entry4 _ Nguyễn Thùy Linh

Item1

Source: http://members.core.com/~tony233/ad-populum.jpg

* Hasty generalization

      The radio is playing the song hit across the nation

      The song was sad

          -> The country is now sad shape

*People tend to take the popularity as a regard. Like the boy in this picture who is listening to the hit song across the nation, feel like it is a sad song and then conclude that the nation is now in sad shape, people usually give a conclusion without giving the evidences and just infer the situation by showing its popularity.

Item 2

Source: http://groundnotes.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/penguin.jpg

*  False Dilemma:

Penguins are black and white.

Old TV shows black and white.

 ->  Penguins are old TVs.

 *This picture illustrates a false dilemma by only bringing one side of this argument into perspective. The penguin assumes that because they are black and white, that he was a black and white TV show.

Item 3

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tzbZ14KHAoI

* False analogy

*The video is comparing getting ice cream to getting a car. The guy in the commercial dreams about getting ice cream but he keeps putting it off to an important moment. Mercedes is saying that the guy waiting to buy ice cream is like other people waiting to buy a Mercedes. They’re also saying they shouldn’t put it off because they are ready to buy the car.