More About Fallacies

Today was a pretty mundane day in class. We read more about fallacies and why using them can be detrimental to an argument. The fallacies we read about today were basically the same ones we learned for the past two days, but they went by different names in the book. This was actually helpful to us because we could identify them without using the name originally taught to us which makes it a little easier. I honestly think I am getting bored with fallacies because we keep seeing them over and over again. Dont get me wrong, I have no problem learning about them or doing activities related to them, it is just becoming really repetitive.

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