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Spot the Fallacy — Homework
No outside reading this week -- focus on the fallacy examples below.
- 1.Name the fallacy: "You can't trust his opinion on healthy eating -- he failed math class."
- 2.Name the fallacy: "Either we ban all homework, or students will never have any free time again."
- 3.Explain why a straw man fallacy is persuasive even though it does not address the real argument.
- 4.Write your own short example of a slippery-slope fallacy about any topic you choose, and label it.
- 5.Rewrite one fallacy-driven example from this week into a fair, non-fallacious version of the same basic argument.
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