http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXMAR63TVDI&feature=channel_video_title
This is another video from that same channel that answered any questions I had about strength vs validity. The whole part where he compared the two at around 3:50 was perfect. I feel as if I'm pretty good at not confusing the two, but this surely taught me a clear way to not confuse validity and strength.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
More Slippery Slop
I found this really awesome video for people that don't really understand slippery slope. It's an easy fallacy to catch, but I loved this video. Especially the demon ball at :58....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmAw9Ia7LA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmAw9Ia7LA
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Slippery Slope
I found a really great example of a slippery slope, and I especially like this one a lot because it has to do with stem cells and stem cell research. Stem cell research is something I really love to study and look into, I find it so fascinating. It has a lot of potential and can do a lot of good.
Here's the fallacy example:
The anti-stem-cell slippery slope argument goes like this: If you permit scientists to destroy human embryos for the purpose of research, it's a slippery slope from there to killing human fetuses in order to harvest tissue, and from there to euthanizing disabled or terminally ill people to harvest their organs, and from there to human cloning and human-animal hybrids, and if making chimeras is okay, well then Dr. Frankenstein must also be okay, and Dr. Mengele, too, and before you know it, it's one long hapless inevitable slide from high-minded medicine to the Nazis.
I feel that this is a perfect example for a slippery slop fallacy. I hear fallcies similar to this about this topic all of the time.
Here's the fallacy example:
The anti-stem-cell slippery slope argument goes like this: If you permit scientists to destroy human embryos for the purpose of research, it's a slippery slope from there to killing human fetuses in order to harvest tissue, and from there to euthanizing disabled or terminally ill people to harvest their organs, and from there to human cloning and human-animal hybrids, and if making chimeras is okay, well then Dr. Frankenstein must also be okay, and Dr. Mengele, too, and before you know it, it's one long hapless inevitable slide from high-minded medicine to the Nazis.
I feel that this is a perfect example for a slippery slop fallacy. I hear fallcies similar to this about this topic all of the time.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
A Quick Note About Sophie
I have been constantly reading this book. I haven't blogged about it recently because I had misplaced it in the chaos of switching out my wardrobe (#yikes). I figured I would make a post for each chapter, and perhaps numerous posts for one chapter. I'll tryyyyyyyyyy to not post anything that would spoil the book for people who want to read it, but I do plan on doing some short responses as to what I think. I'll mark it as SPOILER, I guess. But I just wanted to let people know before I started to post.
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