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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hitlers mein kampf vs. Common Fallacies

Today in class we learned about 9 common fallacies and how they differ or relate to the story main kampf of Hitler. These fallacies all tend to fall under the same category of false statements. For example the story of Mein kampf Hitler states that all humans should only help their people and worry for no one else and that it is the best way to go about in life. We however as civilized human beings view this as an absolutely false statement because we realize that society would be better if everyone, no matter what ethnicity or skin color could help eachother out. Here are some examples of false fallacies:

- There are some truths, wich are so obvious that for this reason they are not seen or at least not recognized by ordinary people. (Hasty Generalization)
This is false because it is a statement that is made on the basis of unsufficient evidence. Ordinary people have the ability to recognize truth even if it is so obvious and even though no other ordinary person can see it.

-Any crossing of two beings not at exaclty the same level produces a medium between the level of the two parts: Offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower parent, but not as high as the higher one. (Post Hoc and Slippery Slope)
This is once again false because the event of having an offspring from a crossing of two human beings at the same level dosent necessarly mean that the offspring will stand higher than he lower parent but not as high as the higher parent. The same thing applies for the Slipper Slope, not just because two beings at the same medium level produce an offspring means that their offspring will be at a higher level than that of the lower parent but lower than that over the hiher parent.

It all makes better sense when you know the definition of each fallacy but for now thats all the time i have left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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