| Brenda Kyle PHI103: Informal Logic Instructor: Elisa Paik Week 4-Discussion 1 March 13, 2017 Fallacies and Biases #1 P1: Dieting will improve your health. P2: Being overweight is also bad for you too. P3: Everyone should exercise at least 30 minutes every day. P4: Eating healthy with exercises can prolong your life. C: Therefore, dieting and exercising is good for you. Name the fallacy-false cause Explain why your argument is fallacious My argument is fallacious false cause because it is from a one person point of views on dieting and exercising. This is my most common fallacious is cheating on my diet. This is my daily thing that I deal with and hard at times to get motivated. Most of the times the dieting goes well, then I get those weakness days. I am a work in progress but am improving. Plus, I am now living a healthy lifestyle. My biggest problem is staying motivated to workout. Any tips or ideas on how to stay focus to dieting and working out. Anyone else have that problem? Explain how you might avoid this fallacy in the future, and the benefits of doing so. I can avoid this type of fallacy by having a stronger true argument. Also, researching dieting and exercises tips online such as google scholar and Ashford University library for a valid information that mean it be true. Using personal life experiences will help this in the future writings. If I have any questions, I will ask my instructor for help. I can also avoid this by setting a daily routine of working out and make it a part of my everyday thing after I wake up. Any suggestions, ideas and feedback is appreciated. Fallacies are errors in reasoning; more specifically, they are common patterns of reasoning with a high likelihood of leading to false conclusions. Logical fallacies often seem like good reasoning because they resemble perfectly legitimate argument forms (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo,2015). There are several different types of fallacy: slippery slope, Equivocations, straw man, appeal, ridicule fallacy, accident fallacy, composite fallacy division, red herring, appeal to emotion, appeal, popular opinion, appeal to tradition, begging the question, circular reasoning, hasty generalization, appeal to ignorance, shifting the burden of proof, appeal to inadequate authority, false dilemma and false cause. They all have a different meaning and outcome. References Hardy, J., Foster, C., & Zúñiga y Postigo, G. (2015). With good reason: A guide to cirtical thinking [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/ | 
