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Mind Map by cristian velez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by cristian velez
over 10 years ago
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FALLACIES
OF
UNCLARITY
- its premises, whether they are true
or false, don't support its conclusion.
- SLIPPERY SLOPES: depend
on small changes
- SLIPPERY SLOPES: depend
on small changes
- ARGUMENT FROM THE HEAP, Sorites
arg--> one penny, two pennies, etc.: all poor
- comes from Principle of Math Induction
- IS A PARADOX: an apparently valid
argument from apparently true premises
to an apparently FALSE conclusion
- HAS VAGUENESS: there's no precise
boundary between the cases to which
that expression correctly applies and the
cases to which it does not correctly apply.
- poor, bald, tall, accomplished, famous
- poor, bald, tall, accomplished, famous
- ARG.FROM HEAP: all are poor; CONC.
SLIP SLOP: no diff between rich-poor.
- comes from Principle of Math Induction
- CONCEPTUAL SLIPPERY SLOPE FALLACY :vagueness - there's no
significant difference between things that belong to that
category and things that don't belong to that category -->
"there's no significant difference between poor and being rich".
- REMEMBER: a group can
be powerful even if the
individuals are not
- puede ser
si-no o
cuantitativo
- puede ser
si-no o
cuantitativo
- FAIRNESS SLIP.SLOPE: unfair
fallacy --> fail a test with 2,99
- People ask: where do you draw the line?
- People ask: where do you draw the line?
- REMEMBER: a group can
be powerful even if the
individuals are not
- CAUSAL SLIP. SLOPE:
domino argument or
parade of horrors
- AMBIGUITY: more than one
acceptable interpretation (homonimos, sentences)
- SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY: homonyms
- SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY: sentences
- FALLACY OF EQUIVOCATION:
applying ambiguity (man is the
only rational animal - and women?)
- SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY: homonyms
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