A Fallacy In the Works!

What Is A Fallacy?

In every great work of writing their comes a time that you might need to argue a point that you are making. What happens when your argument works against you and begins to weaken your argument? A common fallacy would have to be Straw Man, one where the writer is arguing with himself as his own opposition. This creates two types of problems. You have the problem of creating a weaker argument that of which your supporting facts may already disprove. This in turn might lead to a false sense of belief in the argument due to disproving a weak argument one of which might not even be relative to the point being made. Red Herring is another Fallacy that can really catch a reader off guard. This fallacy is most similar to the filibuster used in Congress. The writer or speaker might go off the rails speaking on whatever he or she might speak on whether it has anything to with the topic at hand or not, sometimes never returning to the intended argument.

References: Fallacies. (2019, January 24). Retrieved February 16, 2021, from https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/

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