Fallacies: Appeal to Hypocrisy

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This is a sample video from a video tutorial course titled "Fallacies", which you can preview at the link above.

Part 1: Introduction
1.1 What is a fallacy?
1.2 Categorizing fallacies: pros and cons
1.3 The rules of rational argumentation

Part 2: Some Important Content Fallacies
2.1 Ad hominem (abusive)
2.2 Ad hominem (guilt by association)
2.3 Appeal to hypocrisy (tu quoque))
2.4 Appeal to popular belief (or practice)
2.5 Appeal to authority
2.6 False dilemma
2.7 Slippery slope

Part 3: Fallacies that Violate the Rules of Rational Argumentation
3.1 Straw figure
3.2 Red herring
3.3 Begging the question (narrow sense)
3.4 Begging the question (broad sense)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• fallacy
• logical fallacy
• appeal to hypocrisy
• fallacies

[100PercentGreen]

Good vids man......very well put together!

[PhilosophyFreak]

@100PercentGreen Thanks! I appreciate it.

[Cookiecutter87]

extreme exampe:

Bob says killing is wrong

Bob killed someone

Bob is a hypocrite

therefore killing is okay

[vjm3]

@vjm3:

Wait wait. Hypocricy applies as a valid argument point when the PERSON is the subject of argument (ex. their integrity), and/or about the consistency of the views they hold. It has nothing to do with energy conservation (previous example). It is all a diminishing of character, not the topic they're arguing.

My bad. I think I got it now.

Pretty much the value of an argument is irrelevant of the deliverer. That makes sense.

[vjm3]

So wait the end tripped me slightly.

A claim of hypocricy has agrumentative relevance when the argument involves the character of said person, AND/OR when that person has some sort of social importance in the topic they're being critisized for?

For example: A politician advocates for energy conservation, yet he uses much more energy from power plants foe his house. Therefore that politician's argument for energy conservation is weak?

[ambrosiathe1]

Fallacy is a noun!

[93cian]

Really good videos, subscribed, hope you can keep them up in this format.

[thatguywhodoesvidoes]

?So the "NO U" fallacy?

[trulywillaway]

@flinagin

Sounds like my problem. The people around me seem to believe that logical fallacies such as tu quoque, ad hominem, appeal to popularity, etc. are logically valid arguments. When I point out their fallacious reasoning, they seem to either resort to more logical fallacies, grow even more frustrated, change the subject, or ignore me entirely (or a combination of those).

I think the problem is both a lack of knowledge and that many people let their anger control them.

[HorrorNetwork]

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