Key Take Aways

Table of Contents

• Ad Hominem
• Strawman Argument
• Appeal to Ignorance
• False Dilemma
• Slippery Slope Fallacy
• Circular Argument
• Hasty Generalization
• Red Herring Fallacy

6 Logical Fallacies That Can Ruin Your Growth

• Hasty Generalization A Hasty Generalization is an informal fallacy where you base decisions on insufficient evidence
• Appeal to Authority “Fools admire everything in an author of reputation”
• Appeal to Tradition
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc
• False Dilemma
• The Narrative Fallacy
• 6 Logical Fallacies That Can Ruin Your Growth

1. Distinguish between rhetoric and logic In logical arguments, it obviously matters whether your logic is right
2. Identify bad proofs A bad proof can be a false comparison
3. Identify the wrong number of choices This one is easy to spot
4. Identify disconnects between proof and conclusion

: a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences

Bandwagon argues that one must accept or reject an argument because of everyone else who accepts it or rejects it-similar to peer pressure Examples of Bandwagon: 1 You believe that those who receive welfare should submit to a drug test, but your friends tell you that idea is crazy and they don’t accept it

A bandwagon is a trend that is so cool everyone wants to get in on it Now it’s an idea — people jump on the bandwagon when they hop on a trend This word can be negative because it’s what people do only because it’s trendy

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Jump on the bandwagon’? The word bandwagon was coined in the USA in the mid 19th century, simply as the name for the wagon that carried a circus band Barnum, the great showman and circus owner, used the term in 1855 in his unambiguously named autobiography The Life of PT

Snob effect refers to the desire to possess a unique commodity having a prestige value Snob effect works quite contrary to the bandwagon effect The quantity demanded of a commodity having a snob value is greater, the smaller the number of people owning its

Do not:

1. use false, fabricated, misrepresented, distorted or irrelevant evidence to support arguments or claims
2. intentionally use unsupported, misleading, or illogical reasoning
3. represent yourself as informed or an “expert” on a subject when you are not