| Week 4 Fallacies and Biases Discussion 1 Robin Lawrence PREMISE 1: Playing the lottery will increase my cash flow. PREMISE 2: Gambling can be addictive. PREMISE 3: Everyone who plays the lottery is a gambler. CONCLUSION: Therefore, playing the lottery will make me a Gambler. FALLACY: the False cause is the fallacy that I have committed, this argument if fallacious because it represents my point of view. Playing the Lottery does not make a person a gambler. The assumption that because two things are related, one of them is the cause of the other is called the fallacy of FALSE CAUSE. It is traditionally called post hoc ergo propter hoc ( often simply post hoc ), which is Latin for “ it came after it, therefore, it was caused by it.” Clearly, not everything that happens after something else was caused by it. In my argument, I made the assumption that, “playing the Lottery will make me a Grambler.” Because I play the Lottery, it will make me a Gambler. Fallacies are errors in reasoning; more specifally, they are common patterns of reasoning with a high likelihood of leading to false conclusions. I can avoid committing this type of fallacy in the future by, abandoning my assumptions but rather seeking answers from those who are a specialist in the field of study. Learning to avoid this fallacy will be a huge benefit in my life because it will save me the embarrassment of making assumptions about other people as well as assumptions in my own when I am faced with varies situations, life happens and when it does, I do not want to Assume. REFERENCE Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Zuniga y Postigo, G. (2015). With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking [Electronic Version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/ | 
