Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Thursday, 16 April 2015
DQ 6,7,8 and Activities - Exercise #9
False Premises
Example: Gas/petrol prices go down when production increases, and demand stays the same.Two Wrongs
Example: Bill has borrowed Jane's expensive pen, but found he didn't return it. He tell himself that it is okay to keep it, since she would have taken his.
Reference: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/two-wrongs-make-a-right.html
Stereotyping
Example: All blacks are great basketball players.
Activities: Stereotypes
1- All girls love the color pink.
2- All pilots are men and all stewards are ladies.
3- British people only eat roast beef, nothing else.
4- Stereotyping that all red colored haired people have anger problems.
5- Caribbean people only play reggae and all Spain people hear flamenco music.
6- Stereo typing that all football fans make trouble.
7- Stereo typing that all students don’t clean their own cloths.
8- Stereotyping that retired people don’t have interest in fashion or computers.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
DQ 6-False Premises - Exercise #8
6.13
yes the argument is good based on sound reason/ premises that (lower production = higher petrol)
6.14
No-False: Standing in rain does not load to a cold.
6.15
No-False: If the all people who is live in cities move to the countryside it will be the same problem for the pollution.
6.16
No-False: The good menu is not important as the good food.
6.18
No-False: There are kids and some people can not marry.
6.19
No-False: Not all the people are doing the same thing.
yes the argument is good based on sound reason/ premises that (lower production = higher petrol)
6.14
No-False: Standing in rain does not load to a cold.
6.15
No-False: If the all people who is live in cities move to the countryside it will be the same problem for the pollution.
6.16
No-False: The good menu is not important as the good food.
6.18
No-False: There are kids and some people can not marry.
6.19
No-False: Not all the people are doing the same thing.
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