Question

I've always been fascinated by logical fallacies; the text lists only a few, but there are actually hundreds of logical fallacies that people employ every day (usually in advertisements and politics). Choose one of the five fallacies that are listed in this week's reading, and then describe a true incident in your life where you have actually encountered one of them.

Answer 1

Choose one of the five fallacies that are listed in this week's reading, and then describe a true incident in your life where you have actually encountered one of them.

I choose “Hasty Generalization” fallacy.

A hasty generalization is a general statement without sufficient evidence to support it. A hasty generalization is made out of a rush to have a conclusion, leading the arguer to commit some sort of illicit assumption, stereotyping, unwarranted conclusion, overstatement, or exaggeration.

A true incident in my life: My elder brother likes to eat a lot of pizza and French fries, and he is very healthy. At that time I was 14 years old. In one conversation within my school group on health topics, I made a hasty generalization by saying that pizza and French fries are healthy and don't really make a person fat. This happened because I had evidenced it with my elder brother. Others laughed. Later at home when I checked it on Internet, I found that fact was opposite.

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