McDonald talks introduces the logical fallacies topic with a short mentioning of his experiences in arguing for his religion. He uses some Latin expressions to name his classifications for logical fallacies. However, most of his organizations included some short explanation and sometimes a simple anecdote. There are categorizations; Ad Hominem, Straw Man, False Analogy, Slippery Slope, Confusion Equals Cause, Argument from Authority, Correlation equals Causation, Psychology's Fallacy, False Dilemma, Moral Equivalence, Meaningless Question, Argument from Consequence, Red Herring, Begging the Question, and Appeal to Ignorance.
I once saw "Potatoes have skin. I have a skin. Therefore, I am a potato" on a board in the APUSH class not long ago. It entertained me, but it instantly triggered my brain to elaborate systems in which an explanation was made to prove this illogical guiding wrong. I shouldn't have taken it too seriously, but my attention was totally drawn to that thinking. Firstly, we know we're not potatoes. We are constituted by animal cells, in which chlorophyll isn't present. Potatoes, meanwhile, are the multiple accumulation of starch, mostly supplying carbohydrate. However, we're mostly made of proteins and water, some salts - vital for the electric impulses from nerve to nerve, which curiously works with active transport through the cell's fat membrane - fat, and other types of molecules. Potatoes do have skin, but it's different from ours. We have a complex layering and organizing in our skin. We've got, as you see, hair, the dead cells forming the upper part, small veins, fat, nerves, etc. The potato has, only a simple layer of skin. It has originated from Latin America, made famous by the Incas by serving mashed potato to the Old World newcomers. Humanity, meanwhile, originated from Africa and slowly populated the world, taking more time to immigrate to Europe than to Oceania because of the deadly Sahara desert.
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