MODR 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fraternities And Sororities, Syntactic Ambiguity, Fallacy
24 Jan 2017
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An ambiguity caused by a shift between two legitimate meanings of a term. An ambiguity caused by faulty sentence structure (focus: the fallacy involves the whole sentence and doesn"t turn on one word) The treatment of abstract terms like concrete ones, sometimes even the ascription of humanlike properties to them (similar to personification) The assumption that what is true of : (1)the whole or (2)the group must be true of the parts or members (trying to divide what is true of the whole among its parts) If you believe in the miracles of science, you should also believe in the miracles of the. The assumption that what is true of : (1) a part of a whole or (2) the group must be true of the parts or members. I"ve been served is wedge shaped and so is my neighbour"s. They must have come from a wedge-shape pie .
