2. Nice girls turned naughty. Therefore, you used axe body spray
3. Invalid and Not True. P-Q, Q is true if P is true. What defines naughty and were not sure if Axe Body Spray makes them naughty.
4.
5. If you do not use axe body spray, nice girls will not turn naughty.
6.
a. It seems like it could make for a valid argument following the premise, conclusion format. But, in real circumstances it could make sense. There could be women that like that scent and could make them naughty. But, realistically no it probably would not work.
b. The solution is proved to be unsound and invalid. Yes, it makes sense why it would be invalid in real life.
c. I think tautologies help define whether and argument is valid or invalid and can be driven further to show its affect on real life arguments.
7. Fallacy
8. There is a appeal to popularity, a false cause and would appeal to ignorance
9. It helped me look more into depth on how some advertisements are so weak and present a silly or not supported argument.
very insightful. a little confused with your conditional statement.
ReplyDeletei liked how this shows us the fallacy's and how to determine if they're was any atcual proof of this slogan, which obviously there isnt
ReplyDeleteaaron,
ReplyDeletegood blog entry! we see these kinds of advertisements every day ... where some product maker tries to convince us that we need something using extremely weak arguments. i am glad that you a few things from this experiment. your explanations are well detailed and easy to understand. there seems to be an issue with the set up of your truth table, though, and i don't think the final result is correct. however, all in all, a nice job. =]
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