Fallacy
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Fallacy Summary and Application Paper
Robert King
MGT 350
Instructor: Mike Mynyk
August 12, 2004
Fallacy Summary and Application
Introduction
A Fallacy is a kind of argument which tends to persuade us, even though it is a bad argument, either because of the form, or because of the falsity of one of the premises.
Point of Clarification- when we talk of committing a fallacy, it is usually the person offering the flawed argument who is at fault, as well as the person who accepts the argument as being well reasoned! It the case where the person offering the argument is doing so to prevent harm, and realizes that the argument is fallacious, then they are only committing a fallacy if they believe what they have argued is reasonable.
Some fallacies will depend on sleight of hand (deception), while others rely on emotional appeals (Connelly, 1996).
A vigilant decision maker is alert, thorough, open and persistent in looking at and evaluating different possibilities (Pathways, 2004). The below fallacies that have been presented to customers and employees. Require the use of effective decision making tools to work through the false dilemmas, questionable truths and emotional pitfalls presented before them daily.
False Dilemma
In this fallacy, the distraction from the truth lies in the wording of the argument. The argument is worded so that we are only given two alternative actions, one of which is usually so outrageous as to be unacceptable. The other action or option of belief is usually the one being argued for...