Saturday, May 15, 2010
Whaaaaaaaaaaattt?! Okaaayyy?! Yeaaaaaaahhhhh?!
I have a hard time with Chapter 11. Although I think I know what a fallacy is, the amount of different types of structural fallacies and content fallacies is really confusing to me. The way structural fallacies were presented in the book was very confusing. The list with all the letters did not make that much sense to me. Everything was so similar although they are supposed to show how things are different. Maybe if there were examples of each it could possible help. The letters used in the section did not help me at all. If there was one thing we can discuss a little further then it would be this section. The different types of content fallacies were a little easier to understand but the sheer number of different types is what makes it hard for me. It is more of trying to memorize it that having a problem understanding it. Structural fallacies however are just plain confusing to me.
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I totally agree with you on the fallacies thing. There were so many different kinds and classifications, that it was hard to keep track of them. I feel that maybe more examples would have been helpful, or maybe even divide that section up into a few different chapters. Even when I became confident I knew which fallacies were which, there are certain statements that seems to be more than one type of fallacy, and this became discouraging. Overall, I think that this section of the book can be improved a bit, but reading other students postings did help me understand the material.
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