Monday, January 27, 2014

21. How to Argue


          The author believes hat modern christians have been using too many bad reasonings. Yet christians and the community in general, have been founded on reasonings. His next step then is to explain in 15 ways how to argue correctly and logically. His fifteen steps are each different logical Fallacies. In each step he bluntly says what needs to be done, followed by an example. The fallacies used are Ad Homiem, Straw man, False Analogy, Slippery Slope, Confusion equals Cause, Argument from Authority, Correlation equals Causation, Psychologist's fallacy, False Dilemma, Moral Equivalence, Meaningless Question, Argument from consequence, Red Herring, Begging the Question, and lastly, Appeal to ignorance.
          The wording is quick and fast to read and understand. He does not spend time with fancy words making it easier for any reader, young or old, to comprehend. Since the beginning of the text the author includes himself by using such words as “we”. Yet right after he separates the audience from himself by using “i” and “you”. The article in well written even thou it is brief, to the point, and somewhat informal. 

http://scribblepreach.com/2013/03/13/how-not-to-argue-like-an-idiot-the-15-most-common-logical-fallacies/ 

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