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Critical thinking and Fallacies

Critical thinking and Fallacies

Q Fallacies are errors in thought that leads to wrong judgment and making deliver incorrect and illogical speeches which results in bad arguments. In other word, fallacies are wrong reasoning while making an argument. These fallacies makes argument appears right and justifiable in many cases and in many cases they are deliberate to convince people of their argument or it can also be unintentional when people are ignorant and careless.

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There are five types of fallacies— a. Ad Hominem: in this type people often attack on the character of the person on the opposite side of the argument. This is done when a person is being proved wrong in the argument or he or she wants people to divert their attention from the genuine discussion. One example of this is Trump’s tweet regarding the journalists which read “The @ntdaily is terrible. Journalist hacks with no integrity. No wonder print is dead.” b. Appeal to Authority: this is the common type of fallacy when people in authority use their