Just a Thought
I just watched the movie Runaway Jury and it made me start thinking about fallacies. If you do not know the movie is about misdirection and forms or trickery. I was wondering if people every create arguments and intentionally place logical fallacies within their arguments to swing the reader one way of another. For example, if someone made a terrible argument full of fallacies you would think that the reader would probably take sides against the writer. We really don't know the writers real point of view so he or she could potentially be gaining approval by writing poor arguments. This is just an idea, i can not really think a circumstance where this would be necessary but if anyone can feel free to respond.
2 Comments:
Yes, sometimes people use logical fallacies on purpose. So you need to look out for them, to avoid being persuaded by shysters.
And sometimes you feel the need to use some of the fallacies to sway the reader for noble causes like promote goodness or motivate philanthropy.
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