The fallacy that I choose to cover from the text was ‘Ridicule’, from the section on Violating the Principle of Rational Discussion. This fallacy has to do with situations, where people put someone or something down, in order to try and further there own goal of trying to convince someone of something. Very often you hear this happen in the real world, from academic to professional situations, and even around the home sometimes.
A real world example of this taking place can be seen in the following conversation, that I heard a few semesters ago, though the names are made up.
John: Hey mark do you want to go surfing later?
Mark: Sure dude, that sounds awesome, but are the waves actually going to be out when we arrive? Maybe we should check online first?
John: Nah dude, it is going to be fine, just trust me.
Mark: Like the last time we trusted you, and ended up driving 3 hours to get to an ocean of glass?! Like I said bro, I think we should check.
John: Fine dude, you didn’t have to go there though, I told you it was a mistake.
This is a good example of ridicule, because Mark is ridiculing John about being wrong before, to try and convince John they should check online for the wave report before heading out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment