{"id":57,"date":"2017-06-19T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-writing100\/chapter\/outcome-logical-fallacies\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:22:17","slug":"outcome-logical-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/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. The following are reasons to avoid logical fallacies in your writing:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Logical fallacies can ruin an otherwise effective argument.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Logical fallacies can damage your\u00a0<em>ethos<\/em>, or credibility, as a writer.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Logical fallacies can distract from the purpose of the argument.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","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. The following are reasons to avoid logical fallacies in your writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logical fallacies can ruin an otherwise effective argument.<\/li>\n<li>Logical fallacies can damage your\u00a0<em>ethos<\/em>, or credibility, as a writer.<\/li>\n<li>Logical fallacies can distract from the purpose of the argument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-57\">\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>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":163,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Logical Fallacies\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"University of Mississippi\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b4f87c58-8f15-45af-b56a-551d7f2e5592","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-57","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":48,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/57\/revisions\/930"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/48"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/57\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}