Crt/205

Crt/205

ATTACHMENT 5.1 – CHECKPOINT: IDENTIFYING FALLACIES

Directions

  1. Identify any examples of fallacies in the following passages. Tell why you think these are fallacies, and identify which category they belong in, if they fit any category we’ve described.

  2. After you have completed this CheckPoint, SAVE IT, and POST this entire attachment using your Assignment link no later than Day 4.

      |Statement                                                   |Fallacy                                   |Why you think this?                                   |
|2. Letter to the editor: “Andrea Keene’s selective morality |Ad hominem fallacy                       |This person is trying to make us think that Keen's   |
|is once again showing through in her July 15 letter. This   |Straw Man                                 |viewpoint on abortion is wrong without providing any |
|time she expresses her abhorrence of abortion. But how we   |                                         |solid evidence                                       |
|see only what we choose to see! I wonder if any of the       |                                         |                                                     |
|anti-abortionists have considered the widespread use of     |                                         |                                                     |
|fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if|                                         |                                                     |
|they have, why they haven’t come out against them, too. The |                                         |                                                     |
|use of these drugs frequently results in multiple births,   |                                         |                                                     |
|which leads to the death of one of the infants, often after |                                         |...