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Faulty Logic

This document discusses three types of flawed reasoning: faulty logic, unsupported facts, and emotional appeals. Faulty logic involves flawed reasoning through fallacies like personal attacks. Unsupported facts are claims made without sufficient evidence. Emotional appeals try to arouse sympathetic emotions in audiences to persuade them, often seen in advertising appealing to insecurities or fears. The document provides examples of each type.

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Faulty Logic

This document discusses three types of flawed reasoning: faulty logic, unsupported facts, and emotional appeals. Faulty logic involves flawed reasoning through fallacies like personal attacks. Unsupported facts are claims made without sufficient evidence. Emotional appeals try to arouse sympathetic emotions in audiences to persuade them, often seen in advertising appealing to insecurities or fears. The document provides examples of each type.

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FAULTY LOGIC

LOGIC – is the use and study of valid reasoning.

FAULTY - (of reasoning and other mental processes) mistaken or


misleading because of flaws.

Faulty logic describes poor reasoning, such as the use of


fallacious arguments like personal (ad hominem) attacks,
irrelevancies, analogies
For example:
• A teenager argues against the family’s vacation plans and
mother responds by saying, “when you pay the bills, you can
make decisions.”
UNSUPPORTED FACTS
FACTS – something that has really occurred or is
actually the case.
UNSUPPORTED FACTS are those facts claimed by an
individual or a group of individuals that have actually
occurred but were unable to provide sufficient evidence
to support their claim.
For example:
• I argued with Mr. Ford before I turned in my homework
so I got a bad grade on my paper.
EMOTIONAL APPEAL
 APPEAL - the power of arousing a sympathetic response. 

An emotional appeal is a method of persuasion that's designed


to create an emotional response. Emotional appeals persuade
audiences by arousing the emotions. They refer to the speaker or
writer’s goal of arousing the emotions of an audience to move
them to act.
For example:
• After making it clear that he values employee “loyalty” a
supervisor asks for “volunteers” to help a fellow supervisor
move on the weekend.
EMOTIONAL APPEAL
Emotional appeals are especially
prevalent in advertising. When fashion
magazines play on our insecurities about
body image, they're using emotional
appeals. When political ads play on our
fears, telling us that voting for someone
will lead to financial ruin or wars, they're
using emotional appeals. 
Identify which statements have faulty logic, unsupported facts or
emotional appeal.
1. As a mayor, my top priority will be improving education. So, my
first act of office will be to cut funding for our public schools.
2. Young men in Britain ages between 18 and 25 drink too much
alcohol.
3. A telephone company ad shows a small, sweet grandmother
sitting patiently by the phone waiting for her loved ones to call.
4. “You must buy a lottery ticket or you will not win the lottery”
and later concluded, “Since you bought a ticket you will win the
lottery”.
5. Kylie Jenner is the most beautiful in the world.
6. An ice cream commercial shows kids
enjoying their snacks with happy parents.
7. Trigonometry is the most difficult subject.
8. “I loved that movie we saw last night starring
Daniel Padilla. I am going to rent all of his
movies, and I am sure I‘ll like all of them.”
9. I saw a great movie before my test; that must
be why I did so well.
10. Dylan doesn’t want to eat her meal, but her
mom told her to think of the starving people
who do not have something to eat.

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