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Chapter 17: Information Triage: Identify Reasoning Fallacies

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STEPHEN'S GUIDE TO LOGICAL FALLACIES
Assembled by a faculty member at the University of Alberta, here are some fallacies for you to consider.

http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm

FERGUS DUNIHO'S LIST OF FALLACIES
Fergus is a graduate student in Philosophy and has compiled this list of fallacies.

http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~duniho/fallacies.html

LOGICAL FALLACIES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Test your knowledge of fallacies with this challenging crossword puzzle.

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Humo/LFPuzz.htm

Activity

Talk radio is a particularly good place to polish your information triage skills. If you're uncertain where to find talk radio in your area, the following sites provide a listing of Web pages for various talk-radio stations in the United States:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Internet_Broadcasts/Radio

http://www.broadcast.com/radio/talk

http://realguide.real.com/tuner/?format=503&pt=&pv=&sortvar=name&type=results

Spend some time listening to a politically oriented talk-radio program, then see how many examples of reasoning fallacies you can identify. Consider these questions:

1. What evidence is used to support a position or point?
2. What form of reasoning is the speaker using? Apply the tests of reasoning we present in this chapter to the arguments advanced.
3. How does the speaker appeal to emotion? Are emotional appeals emphasized more than logical appeals?
4. Note whether the speaker used fear appeals. Were the fear appeals used effectively?

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