Informal Fallacies: Argument, And Fallacy

Often we come across of fallacies during our daily conversations. The fallacies are either formal or informal. We use informal fallacies while having casual chatting very often. Some people know about these fallacies while some people don’t know about fallacies, but still they use. Informal fallacies can be defined as follows:

Kind of argument or statement used in debates which is based on invalid conclusions.

Arguments that are fallacious for reasons other than structural (formal) flaws and which usually require examination of the argument's content.

A fallacy is a bed argument which makes us accept the thing because of its form or present of the premises. People use fallacies to defend their opinions in various situations. It can be used in such a manner that it makes us believe their opinion is right.

We use informal fallacies due to nature of the necessity. As the ability to deal with the different arguments is different for all individuals, people use different types of fallacies in different circumstances.

So, There are many different types of informal fallacies. Some of their examples are as:

1. Fallacy of Argument from ignorance

2. Fallacy of personal attacks

3. Fallacy of circular reasoning

4. Fallacy of argument from repitition

5. Fallacy of Burden of proof

Detailed discussion of the above listed fallacies can be given as:

1) Fallacy of Argument from ignorance:

Definition: It is also known as appeal to ignorance where ignorance stands for lack of evidence.

An appeal to ignorance occurs when one person uses another person’s lack of knowledge on a particular subject as evidence that their own argument is correct.

For example no one has seen the God so God doesn’t exists. But everyone believes that God exits in the Wor...

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... B that can u prove why Ronny doesn’t deserve to win than it will be upon judge B to prove that why Ronny is not only Best. Judge B will have burden of proof in such case.

Fallacy burden of proof, viewed on 1st May 2013 http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/burden-of-proof.html burden of proof, viewed on 2nd May 2013 https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof Conclution:

In conclusion it can be said that fallacies are ways of proving ourselves in different situations. normally informal fallacies are in more commonly used. In here only few are described but there are many more fallacies exists which are used very often. And even there may be many fallacies which even people doesn’t know and still used in daily debates.

Fallacy in our everyday statement viewed on 2nd May 2013-05-02 http://shockerz.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/fallacy-in-our-everyday-statement/