{"id":110,"date":"2019-12-07T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-logical-fallacies\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:58:05","slug":"outcome-logical-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/outcome-logical-fallacies\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Logical Fallacies","rendered":"Introduction to Logical Fallacies"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: evaluate logical fallacies in argument<\/h2>\r\nFallacies\u00a0are errors or tricks of reasoning. We call it\u00a0an\u00a0<em>error<\/em> of reasoning if the fallacy occurs accidentally; we call it a <em>trick of reasoning<\/em> if a speaker or writer uses the fallacy in order to deceive or manipulate his or her audience.\r\n\r\nThe following are reasons to avoid logical fallacies in your writing. Logical fallacies:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>ruin an otherwise effective argument.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>damages your\u00a0<em>ethos<\/em>, or credibility, as a writer.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>distracts from the purpose of the argument.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\r\n<h3>Watch It<\/h3>\r\nThis video introduces you to some common fallacies. As you watch, take note about over-simplication and premises as an introduction about logical fallacies.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgdDK4XMpm0\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nYou can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/CriticalThinkingPart3-TheManWhoWasMadeofStraw_transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for \"Critical Thinking Part 3: The Man Who Was Made of Straw\" here (opens in new window)<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: evaluate logical fallacies in argument<\/h2>\n<p>Fallacies\u00a0are errors or tricks of reasoning. We call it\u00a0an\u00a0<em>error<\/em> of reasoning if the fallacy occurs accidentally; we call it a <em>trick of reasoning<\/em> if a speaker or writer uses the fallacy in order to deceive or manipulate his or her audience.<\/p>\n<p>The following are reasons to avoid logical fallacies in your writing. Logical fallacies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ruin an otherwise effective argument.<\/li>\n<li>damages your\u00a0<em>ethos<\/em>, or credibility, as a writer.<\/li>\n<li>distracts from the purpose of the argument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\n<h3>Watch It<\/h3>\n<p>This video introduces you to some common fallacies. As you watch, take note about over-simplication and premises as an introduction about logical fallacies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgdDK4XMpm0\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/CriticalThinkingPart3-TheManWhoWasMadeofStraw_transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for &#8220;Critical Thinking Part 3: The Man Who Was Made of Straw&#8221; here (opens in new window)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-110\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Logical Fallacies. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: University of Mississippi. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Critical Thinking Part 3: The Man Who Was Made of Straw. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: TechNyouvids. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=28&#038;v=kgdDK4XMpm0&#038;feature=emb_logo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=28&#038;v=kgdDK4XMpm0&#038;feature=emb_logo<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>Other<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":13,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Logical Fallacies\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"University of Mississippi\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Critical Thinking Part 3: The Man Who Was Made of Straw\",\"author\":\"TechNyouvids\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=28&v=kgdDK4XMpm0&feature=emb_logo\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"other\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"8c547cad-5b83-4494-b9ea-6434d7d37e21","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-110","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":833,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6504,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions\/6504"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/833"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}