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Recognizing Propaganda and Logical Fallacies

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1 Recognizing Propaganda and Logical Fallacies

2 Propaganda

3 Band Wagon: “Everybody is doing it, so why don’t you get with it and join the crowd?”
Ex. “Nine out of ten people say they preferred CHOO-CHOO over any other kind of gum.”

4 2. Testimonial: A person famous in sports, acting or any sort of role model is shown using a particular brand of soap, tennis racket etc.

5 3. Transfer: A candidate chooses a background behind where they speak to transfer those images to him or her. Ex. A person seeking election might choose to give a talk with the Lincoln Memorial or American flags in the background.

6 4. Plain Folks: The idea is to convince voters that the candidate belongs to the common people.

7 5. Glittering Generalities:  Words or phrases are used but may not have a specific meaning but sound good. They create favorable impressions in the mind of some listeners.

8 6. Card Stacking: is a way to manipulate information so that one product or person looks better than another.

9 7. Name Calling: a label that is not complimentary is used to influence others to dislike a person or organization.

10 Logical Fallacies

11 1. Hasty Generalizations: generalizing from inadequate evidence.

12 2. False Analogy: making a misleading comparison between two situations. Ex, If the United States gets involved in a land war with Iraq, it will turn out like the Vietnam War.

13 3. Non-sequitur: generalizing from inadequate evidence. Ex
3. Non-sequitur: generalizing from inadequate evidence. Ex. If we can send a spacecraft to Mars, then we can find a cure for cancer.

14 4. Post-hoc ergo propter hoc: “after this, therefore caused by this”; assuming that because two events related in time, the first caused the second. Ex. We should not rebuild the town docks because every time we do a big hurricane comes along and damages them.

15 5. Red herring: Sidetracks the issue with an unrelated issue.

16 6. Ad hominem: “to the man”; attacking a person making the argument rather than the argument it- self.

17 7: ad Ignorantium: saying something must be true because you can prove that its false. Ex, Aliens exist because you cant prove they don’t.

18 8. ad populum: ideas are right because they are popular.

19 9. Slippery Slope: an assumption that one idea should lead to another
9. Slippery Slope: an assumption that one idea should lead to another. Ex. If one thing happens then another negative thing must happen which causes another negative thing to happen.

20 10. Flattery: persuading people to do something by suggesting they are thoughtful, intelligent, or perceptive enough to agree with the writer.


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