Logical Fallacy

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Logical Fallacy

• Brett Willis
• Kaylee Britt

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Appeal to Ridicule

• Definition a fallacy in which ridicule or
  mockery is substituted for evidence in an
  argument.
• Equal rights for women? Yeah, Ill support that
  when they start paying for dinner and taking out
  the trash! Hah hah! Fetch me another brewski,
  Mildred

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Visual Representation
A great point and solution is brought up by the
man with the beard, but because of his beard, his
argument loses credibility because facts against
his side of the argument are substituted with a
mockery of his physical appearance.
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The Crucible

• Act 1, page 181
• Proctor To live in, yes. But to ask ownership is
  like you shall own the meeting house itself the
  last meeting I were at, you spoke so long on
  deeds and mortgages I thought it were an auction.
  
• Explanation Proctor is comparing auctions to
  Parriss sermons because they both contain money,
  deeds, and mortgages.

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The Crucible

• Act 2, page 198
• Proctor Since we built the church there were
  pewter candlesticks upon the alterwhen I look to
  heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows- it
  my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. I think,
  sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not
  clapboard meetin houses.
• Explanation Proctor is criticizing Parriss
  sermons because they contain talks of money and
  material items. When Proctor states the Parris
  dreams of Cathedrals , and not clapboards houses,
  it shows how much of a materialistic person
  Parris is becoming. When Proctor is talking about
  money glaring at his elbows, he is describing
  what his prayers are turning into when Parris
  preaches.

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The Crucible

• Act 3, page 217
• Proctor There might also be a dragon with five
  legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
• Explanation Proctor is talking about a dragon in
  his house because the people of Salem are
  accusing his wife of having many poppet's in her
  house. When in reality hes trying to throw them
  off by stating he might have a dragon with five
  feet in his house, because, the poppets have
  never been see by anybody, except the one Mary
  Warren made for her.

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The Crucible

• Act 3, page 214
• Putnam It is a lie.
• Danforth Mr. Putnam states your charge is a lie.
  What say you to that?
• Giles A fart on Thomas Putnam, that is what I
  say to that.
• Explanation Giles is in a situation where he is
  losing the battle, so in order to gain some
  control he mock Thomas Putnam instead of
  answering the question and presenting any real
  facts.

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Bibliography

• The Nizkor Project. "Fallacy Appeal to
  Ridicule." Holocaust Educational Resource. 2011.
  Web. 19 Feb. 2012
• SaidWords. "Share It." Appeal to Ridicule.
  BitStrips, 09 Aug. 2008. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.