I need help with school slide show on logical fallacies.

[Dragoon Fighter]

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At school we where given the task of doing a slide show on a subject of our choice. After pondering my options I dicided I would do one on logical fallacies. While showing and explaining the logical fallacies is a non issue, I am on a time limit during my presentation. So, I need to know what are the most common logical fallacies you encounter. I plan on doing a top ten so to speak of the most common logical fallacies. Which ones do you think I should do?

 

[Lore]

Straw man and generalization are the two that come to mind, but I can't remember the Latin terms. I'll look them up later, along with some others.

 

[-Jumpman-]

First you need to determine in which environment the fallacies occur (e.g. politics). Then you need to determine what criteria are needed to form a top ten. THEN you get to choose to fallacies, which is the easiest part.

 

[ballin4life]

Formal or informal?

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_fallacy

 

[Dragoon Fighter]

Formal or informal?

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_fallacy

I was thinking of doing the most common, not really picking between the two catagories, however you do bring up a good point, mabey I should pick a catagory to help narrow it down.

 

[-Jumpman-]

Formal or informal?

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_fallacy

Did you seriously ask a question that is answered in the first couple of sentences on the wiki page?

 

[Dragoon Fighter]

Did you seriously ask a question that is answered in the first couple of sentences on the wiki page?

No he did not, he is talking about the different types of logical fallacies which are broken down into two main categories. Formal and informal, he is asking me which type am I doing my school project on.

 

[Savon]

I would suggest that you stick with more basic logical fallacies and simply go into detail for them. When you get into an area that is too complex especially for something such as this you might not keep your audience interested during the presentation.

I would suggest that you use the fallacies that one would find in everyday arguments/politics to make it more accessible. I say that you focus on strawman arguments/generalizations/affirming the consequent.

Those tend to be the fallacies most people are guilty of and easiest to understand.

 

[-Jumpman-]

No he did not, he is talking about the different types of logical fallacies which are broken down into two main categories. Formal and informal, he is asking me which type am I doing my school project on.

Yes he did. He asked a question that was answered in the first couple of sentences of the page. If you hadn't known before seeing that page, you would've known after.