Catagorizing Fallacies

Categorizing Fallacies

Example:

"If my company spent as much money on its good employees as it does on its bad representatives, I might see a gain in my personal finances."

Type of Fallacy:

Type of fallacy is - Wishful Thinking

Explanation:

The explanation of my fallacy is that it has been proven that the Sales Representatives on my job are like Royalty and make a lot of money to make bad decisions in my opinion and then through mine and others hard work and determination we will do more of the selling of our products then they do. Therefore, I feel that if the company would one day become fair by the people who actually close the deal for the sales representatives they will reap a bigger reward in either more cash pay or incentives that will boost the moral in the company.

Example:

Everyone knows that men will cheat on you given the opportunity and someone to cheat with.

Type of fallacy: Hasty Generalization.

Explanation:

I might be considered hastily jumping to conclusion when I make the statement that most women will tell you that men cheat, not because it's their personal experience but because we will sometimes take what we hear to heart from other people that may not even have any proof that the man they were with cheated. I think that we make hasty decisions about people everyday not even realizing that is what we are doing until someone puts us in a category and we see what it feels like to be generalized and not judged as an individual.

Example:

It's very upsetting that Trayvon Martin case is going the way that it has. It has people from all walks of life outraged, by the way the way that the accused has been allowed to conduct himself regarding America's son.

Type of fallacy: This is an Argument from Outrage.

Explanation:

People really are outraged about the stand your ground law. This law is very insensitive to the innocent victim and the fact that Zimmerman had not been arrested in a timely manner. I don't think people are outrage from a prejudice point of view but it is tainted by the thought that race has everything to do with what's going on in this case. The argument behind the stand your grounds law is the biggest controversy that has changed the way some people think about the right to bare firearms and be able to randomly shoot a person because (you) think they may be harmful to you without any proof of that.