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11.21.2003
Welcome to Blogging 101 Slippery Slope In order to show that a proposition P is unacceptable, a sequence of increasingly unacceptable events is shown to follow from P. A slippery slope is an illegitimate use of the "if-then" operator. I see lots of bad reasoning floating around on the web. One night a friend and I were sitting around talking about education and we decided that schools would be better off teaching more courses based on practical thinking. Critical Thinking Logic Learning Problem Solving With these tools you can educate yourself. Sure, reading and writing are essential as well but we seem to completely forsake these other "lesser" skills that I think are critical in their own right. How do people survive in this world without the basic tools of critical thinking? I wonder. When I watch those late night infomercials I think to myself "Who believes this crap?" Another common fallacy? Begging the Question. The truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises. Often, the conclusion is simply restated in the premises in a slightly different form. In more difficult cases, the premise is a consequence of the conclusion. Some bloggers are simply content to make an assertion, throw out a few insults and restate their opinion and few more times without ever discussing the merits of the debate. This may work well for general preaching to the choir but it does nothing to enrich the discussion. Composition: Because the parts of a whole have a certain property, it is argued that the whole has that property. That whole may be either an object composed of different parts, or it may be a collection or set of individual members. This is the common "the left", "the liberals", "the right", "the conservatives" fallacy that is running rampant in the blogosphere. The group in question is smeared because some stupid fool does what he does best. This lone example is stood up to be representative of the whole spectrum. So I have to remind myself that George W. Bush does not represent all Republicans... :) You should do yourself a favor, go look over this list of fallacies and ask yourself, "Do I do this?" | |
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