My Daily Reflection Entry

Today in class we read about fallacies and we took notes.  There are many different types of fallacies that we learned that in the past few days and today we reviewed over some more.  We use fallacies everyday and we don’t even know it because we just don’t stop what we talking about or doing and automatically know that we are doing a fallacy.  There are many different ways fallacies are used and sometimes they are used on deductive logic works.  Meaning that it starts with the the audience knows and believes-the commonplace-and applies it to a particular situation to the conclusion. There is one big difference between formal logic and the art of persuasion because it focuses  on their attitudes toward the rules and rhetoric has virtually had no rules.  An ability to protect yourself from aiding fallacies is to look for bad proofs, the wrong number of choices, and/or the disconnect between the proof and the conclusion.  The uses of a fallacy can make or break an essay if the right person reads it or if you use on the right person.