Requesting Info on a Couple Fallacies
November 11, 2013 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2013 at 3:09 pm by Walking Void.)
I am somewhat confused regarding 3 of the logical fallacies. The ones I am talking about are Special Pleading, Cherry Picking and Red Herring.
Maybe someone with professional experience
on these 3 fallacies is available to help?
To summarize, the Red Herring fallacy is about covering for faults in an argument, mainly using distractions. The Special Pleading fallacy is about ignoring faults in arguments, whereas Cherry Picking concentrates on only proper logic in an argument.
Is this all correct? And if so is this not redundant to refer to slightly different variations of same attitude towards a bad argument in much the same way?
I mean, can I not just reference 1 of the 3 and the other 2 should be implied, correct?
Maybe someone with professional experience
on these 3 fallacies is available to help?To summarize, the Red Herring fallacy is about covering for faults in an argument, mainly using distractions. The Special Pleading fallacy is about ignoring faults in arguments, whereas Cherry Picking concentrates on only proper logic in an argument.
Is this all correct? And if so is this not redundant to refer to slightly different variations of same attitude towards a bad argument in much the same way?
I mean, can I not just reference 1 of the 3 and the other 2 should be implied, correct?
