This Sample is About the Forms of Fallacies (Essay Sample)

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A fallacy can be described as an error in reasoning. A fallacy differs from a factual blunder which is basically being mistaken about facts. Specifically, a fallacy is an argument whereby the grounds provided in the conclusion lack the necessary extent of support. There are various forms of fallacies. There are two major forms of argument namely inductive and deductive. An argument is said to be deductive if the premise offers or seem to provide an absolute support for conclusion. On the other hand, an argument is termed as inductive if the premise provides or seems to provide certain extent of support for the conclusion. Thus there are two forms of fallacies; deductive fallacy and an inductive fallacy.
The grounds of a deductive fallacy can all be true, but still have a phony conclusion. Thus a deductive argument that is illogical is said to be a deductive fallacy. On the other hand, premises provided in inductive fallacy are not sufficient to support the conclusion. Therefore, in such an incident the conclusion will probably be wrong even if the grounds were correct. The fallacy project video provides various examples of fallacies from politics, popular culture and advertising. The video demonstrate eight frequent fallacies and it gives a brief description and explains why it is a fallacy. The car advert demonstrate slippery slope fallacy, the political ad reveal red herring fallacy, the political analyst reveals non sequitur, Sesame street clip demonstrate post hoc fallacy, Saturday night clip demonstrate bandwagon fallacy, the political advert for 2006 US senate seat in Tennessee depicts ad hominem, Tom Cruise shows false authority fallacy, and finally hasty generalization from Mrs. Quayle’s speech. I have chosen hasty generalization.
Hasty generalization entails making presumptions regarding an entire group or variety of cases based on a premise that is insufficient ("Fallacies - The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill," n.d.). Stereotypes regarding people are a regular example of the opinion underlying hasty generalizations. For example, the clip from the 1992 Republican Convention shows Mrs. Quayle making a hasty generalization. She said, "Most women would rather not be liberated, and would prefer to stay at home and raise a family" (Fallacy Project: Examples of Fallacies from Advertising, Politics, and Popular Culture, n.d.). Mrs. Quayle does not provide premises to support her conclusion regarding what most women would prefer. There is a likelihood that this might be true to some women, but it is irrational to claim "most”. She makes a conclusion from a sample that is insufficient. This fallacy is also known as hasty induction, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of insufficient statistics of fallacy of insufficient sample ("Fallacies - The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill," n.d.). In hasty generalization, ...