Red herring fallacy in news
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A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
[DOC File]Logical Fallacies Quiz
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Form: Red Herring. Directions: Match each example with the correct logical fallacy from the box below. Read carefully! Even though it’s only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring class. The public should not support Dr. Mason’s plan for improving county health services.
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Description of Red Herring A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
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Description of Red Herring A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
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Red Herring: “This fallacy’s funny name derives from the practice of using a red herring (a highly odiferous fish) to throw dogs off a scent that they are supposed to be tracking. It refers to the practice of throwing an audience off track by raising an unrelated or irrelevant point: ‘Debating a gas tax increase is valuable, but I really ...
[DOC File]Logical Fallacies (Misuse of logos)
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The Red Herring- distracting the audience rather than focusing on the argument. Whether or not the police were racist in the O.J. Simpson trial was a red herring because even though their alleged racism might have provided a motive for planting evidence, their racism was unrelated to whether Simpson was innocent or guilty for murder.
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Red Herring (from dragging a smelly fish across a trail to throw a hunting dog off the scent) Raising an irrelevant issue during an argument. When is the last time you heard a reporter say to a politician, “But sir, you didn’t answer the question!” Examples. Every woman should have the right to an abortion on demand.
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The red herring is as much a debate tactic as it is a logical fallacy. It is a fallacy of distraction, and is committed when a listener attempts to divert an arguer from his argument by …
[DOC File]Fallacies Worksheet #1
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No news is good news. People-getting divorces is no news. Therefore, people-getting divorces is good news. Vitamins are essential to good health. Everyone should take vitamins each day. If the Founding Fathers, had wanted women to have the vote, they would have written it into the Constitution. Do you intend to go to college or dig ditches all ...
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_____a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be ...
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