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Fallacies of Ambiguity

  • 03-04-2014 10:44PM
    #1
    Pudsy33
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    I've been tasked to find 3 examples of the Fallacy of Ambiguity in contemporary media but I am coming up short. Does anyone have any examples? Thanks :)


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    Damocles2
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    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    I've been tasked to find 3 examples of the Fallacy of Ambiguity in contemporary media but I am coming up short. Does anyone have any examples? Thanks :)

    There are different types of Fallacies of Ambiguity explained with examples on this link, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers a good discussion on ambiguity. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy covers fallacies.

    Argumentum ad ignorantiam (appeal to ignorance) may often occur in contemporary media; i.e., the lack of evidence is used as evidence in an argument. The red tops are filled with such fallacies. Example: "Why is so-and-so keeping so quiet about the issue? This appears very suspicious. They must be hiding something."


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