PHIL-1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ad Hominem, Informal Fallacy

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL-1003
• Professor: Tempest Henning

Document Summary

--no real connection between the premises and the conclusion of an argument. Fallacious argument whose effectiveness lies in distraction. A fallacy in which attention is deliberately deflected away from the issue under discussion. An informal fallacy committed when some distraction is used to mislead and confuse. A fallacy in which the premises support a different conclusion from the one that is proposed. (there is a conclusion b that could be generated from. Premise a, but instead, conclusion c is generated. ) An informal fallacy committed when one refutes, not the thesis one"s interlocutor is advancing, but some different thesis that one mistakenly imputes to him or her. Premises does have a consultation, but the conclusions does not follow. As an example, suppose that one person emphasizes how important it is to increase funding for the public schools. His opponent responds by insisting that a child"s education involves much more than schooling and gets underway long before her formal schooling begins.