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Tell the truth! Fallacies in the Primary Debates

I once had a colleague, who when she heard something she found difficult to believe, would exclaim: “Oh, tell the truth!” How I now wish she was asking the candidates questions, trying to weed through their fallacies. A fallacy is a mistake or deliberate misuse of one of the parts of argument. Fallacies often seem persuasive [...]

By TheRhetoricalGadfly|November 26th, 2015|Categories: argument, assertions, political rhetoric, primary debates|Tags: Democratic primary debate, fallacies, Republican primary debate, rhetoric|

Evidence–The Building Blocks of Argument

I begin with a caveat: If you ever read a book on argumentation or take a course in argument, you’ll likely see more distinctions among the different types of evidence than what I’m about to present. I’ve condensed the many different types into three general categories: 1) examples 2) statistics and 3) expertise. I chose [...]

By TheRhetoricalGadfly|November 24th, 2015|Categories: argument, evidence, political facts, political rhetoric, primary debates|Tags: Democratic primary debate, fallacies, political rhetoric, Republican primary debate, rhetoric|

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Tell the truth! Fallacies in the Primary Debates

Evidence–The Building Blocks of Argument