CTCA Logical Fallacies Relevance & Insufficient Evidence
CTCA Logical Fallacies Relevance & Insufficient Evidence
CTCA Logical Fallacies Relevance & Insufficient Evidence
Fallacious Argument
• Fallacies are defects that weakens arguments.
• Appeal to Ignorance
• Loaded Question
• Weak Analogy
• Post Hoc Fallacy
• Mere Co-relation Fallacy
Fallacies of Relevance
3. Scare Tactics
• The fallacy of scare tactics is committed when
an arguer threatens harm to a reader or listener
if he or she does not accept the arguer’s
conclusion and this threat is irrelevant to the
truth of the arguer’s conclusion.
Scare Tactics
• Advertisement to
convey ill effects
of tobacco.
• It is used to convince
people to stay away
from tobacco
consumption.
Example
4. Appeal to Pity
Example
Bungee – jumping is dangerous because it is
unsafe.
Example
Sam: God wrote the Bible.
Jim: How do you know?
Sam: Because it says so in the Bible, and what
the Bible says is true.
Jim: How do you know what the Bible says is
true?
Sam: Because God wrote the Bible.
Fallacies of Insufficient
Evidence
Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence
• Appeal to Ignorance
• Loaded Question
• Weak Analogy
• Post Hoc Fallacy
• Mere Co-relation Fallacy
Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence
1. Appeal to Ignorance