Logos Fallacies Review

Overview and Reading

Fallacies are not mastered in a day, or even in a semester! Let's get some more practice!

Have your fallacies handy for this one!

Remember, logical fallacies are logical ERRORS, meant to be avoided.

Fallacies WEAKEN logos and ethos.

Logical Fallacies' Connection to our Learning Outcomes

Identifying logical fallacies is an essential task that directly supports your Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) in several key ways:

Identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in a variety of culturally relevant texts:
- Recognizing logical fallacies is a critical part of analyzing rhetorical strategies. It involves identifying flawed logic or misleading arguments in a text, which is essential for a comprehensive evaluation of the text's argumentative strength and credibility.
Construct persuasive arguments that include effective use of rhetorical strategies:
- Understanding logical fallacies also helps in constructing your own arguments. By knowing what constitutes a fallacy, you can avoid these errors in your writing, thereby strengthening the persuasiveness and logical coherence of your arguments.
Contextualize, integrate, and synthesize diverse perspectives, using appropriate documentation:
- Identifying fallacies aids in the process of integrating and synthesizing diverse perspectives in a balanced and fair manner. It ensures that the perspectives you include in your arguments are presented accurately and without distortion, maintaining intellectual honesty and respect for different viewpoints.

Instructions

After completing the reading and exercises in this module, take this quiz to check your knowledge.

Please complete all quizzes for this class alone, without sharing answers. Feel free to review your notes/readings as you go!

If you are happy with your score after the first attempt, you are done. If you would like to re-take the quiz, you may. You will keep the higher score if you take it a second time.

Grading & Feedback

You will see your quiz score and any automated feedback immediately after completion. You will see if you missed any questions. The answers to any missed questions will be provided after the second quiz attempt.

Canvas Guides

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The image shows a penguin standing on an ice floe with a thought bubble above its head. Inside the thought bubble, the penguin is making a logically flawed statement: "Penguins are black and white. Some old TV shows are black and white. Therefore, some penguins are old TV shows." Beneath the penguin, there is a caption that reads, "Logic: another thing that penguins aren't very good at." The humor in the image stems from the penguin's incorrect use of logic, suggesting a nonsensical conclusion that because penguins share the colors black and white with some old TV shows, they are, in fact, old TV shows. This is an example of a logical fallacy, where the premises do not logically lead to the conclusion.