An Argument of Logical Fallacies

An Argument Comprised of Logical Fallacies

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• schools
• logic
• logical
• fallacy
• fallacies
• clowns

[traemc]

Grades are then only needed because of students who wouldn't work in order to keep them working, but do they have a real intrinsic value to those would work?

As for the slippery slope, a slippery slope isn't always wrong, but when missaplied, it becomes the slippery slope fallacy.

[traemc]

Education and employment are different because in employment one is provided a wage or benefit for providing a service to another, whereas in higher education one is paying for a service. However, goal becomes to get a good grade, not necessarily to gain all possible benefit from the service in order not to waste money. But, if grades were removed, then no one would be striving to get them. The question then becomes, would students stop work or not? -- which is the point of the video's analogy.

[MetaMorphy]

This is good. Was the money grades analogy really that bad, however? The slippery slope is not a fallacy though it can be misapplied; it just requires that you answer the question what principle stops the slope from being slippery?

[traemc]

Well, the money-grade one was a false analogy because money and grades are so different in function. Firstly, it must be known that the context is higher education -- college. Since students are in this context actually paying to take advantage of a service rather than being paid, it can be seen as a false analogy on that level to a degree. I would also argue that money is a reward for work -- an earned right -- whereas grades act more as a penalty than a reward.

[pete975]

I couldn't understand most of what was said.

[Avarice176]

^Agreed. its kinda hard to hear

[ambrosiathe1]

I want to watch fawlty towers now...

[Standuble]

I wish I was better at determining when I was making a logical fallacy! It's like walking blindfolded through a minefield sometimes!

[mrteemumilto]

I would like to criminalize fallacistic arguments in the court, the politics and the media.

[FallofDarkness55]

An argument of logical fallacies only proves ignorance.

[jessemaurais]

It's amazing how many people who will commit a fallacy and go thinking that their argument is logically sound. In some cases even after you point out the fallacy to them, they'll continue to use it.

[robertwc82]

LOL @ the ad homenim

[casanovakreg]

sounds like some "intellectuals" I know. a good tool/site is learnlogicalfallacies

[OspacemarineO]

@traemc Grades exist to determine the ability of the student. Period.

[S2niS2]

the left side is cute

the right side is funny