Want to get notified of all questions as they are asked? Update your mail preferences and turn on "Instant Notification."
Claims are constantly being made, many of which are confusing, ambiguous, too general to be of value, exaggerated, unfalsifiable, and suggest a dichotomy when no such dichotomy exists. Good critical thinking requires a thorough understanding of the claim before attempting to determine its veracity. Good communication requires the ability to make clear, precise, explicit claims, or “strong” claims. The rules of reason in this book provide the framework for obtaining this understanding and ability.
This book / online course is about the the eleven rules of reason for making and evaluating claims. Each covered in detail in the book.
|
Generally speaking, political rhetoric is in a different category than argumentation (unless it takes place in a debate). Recall that the error in reasoning is not the part of the person who knows what they are doing uses manipulative rhetoric to win the hearts and minds of people; the error in reasoning is on the parts of all the people who fall for it. By calling the Georgia voting law "Jim Crow 2," Biden (and others) is making an analogy. Where is it on the continuum of strength? weak analogy or strong one? Keeping out of the politics, each side would have to make their case as to why this is a strong or weak analogy, and the audience would need to decide. Unfortunately, with such a politically-charged issue, the left will claim a strong analogy and the right will claim a weak one. As for being associated with Lincoln or Davis, I don't think there is a fallacy here. It could be factually incorrect that Lincoln or Davis would agree or disagree with the Georgia voting law—this is speculation. But assuming Lincoln would be against it and Davis would be for it, it would be accurate to say one would be "with" on of those two on the issue. This is associate rhetoric for the most part, like telling someone if they like animals they are on the side of Hitler (because Hitler liked animals). |
||||
answered on Sunday, Jan 16, 2022 01:11:38 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |||||
Bo Bennett, PhD Suggested These Categories |
|||||
Comments |
|||||
|