Week 3 Post 3: Chapter 11 Concept

The concept that caught my attention this week was structural fallacies. I have never heard of the word fallacies before but now that I know more about it, I realized that I use it a lot. There are many type of fallacies such as; bad appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, false dilemma and many more. An argument is considered a fallacy only if the premises is not to be relied on and no other premises support the conclusion. In order to have a good fallacy one would need to structure it well. Everyone uses fallacy in their everyday life, so learning about fallacy is really important. In this chapter, I  also learned that there are different ways to violate the principle of rational discussion. There are four parts: begging the question, strawman, shifting the burden of proof, and relevance. When begging the question on must convince in their argument that the claim is true. Strawman is most often misinterpreted and can be easily knocked down by putting words into other people's mouth. Relevance is when a premise is irrelevant to the conclusion.