365 Days of Philosophy
365 Days of Philosophy
Kylie Sturgess
365DaysOfPhilosophy 271 - Fallacies Identification Passage X
1 minutes Posted Sep 29, 2017 at 7:32 am.
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For the following examples, identify if there is a fallacy being used (there may not be!) — and which one it is. Answers tomorrow on Patreon.com/kyliesturgess.

  1. You can either discuss how pelicans have to deal with body dysmorphia, and ignore how there’s a rise in problems for penguin’s body issues — or you can allow for some balance and just discuss penguin’s body issues problems instead. — false dilemma
  2. You’re talking about lack of representation of pelicans’ work in film competitions, but did you know that penguins are portrayed in magazines like Cosmopolitan as objectified sex symbols? I’m raising that as a problem facing us all. — red herring
  3. After the film competition removed the identifying characteristics of the creators of the film entries, penguins were less likely to be selected as film competition finalists. Therefore, removing the identity of the creators of the entries leads to bias against penguin entries. — post hoc.
  4. Sure, there’s a lot of evidence that there’s problems for pelicans’ work being selected for that film competition for the past ten years, but you’re not talking about all the other years before then, where there may have been less problems for pelicans’ work being selected. — moving the goalposts
  5. No radio broadcaster has succeeded unless they were a penguin, so you must have to be a penguin in order to succeed in radio broadcasting. — no true scotsman.

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