Blog Post #2
1. A
common saying that can often be found slipping in and out of the media is “An
apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
2.
If
you eat an apple then the
Major premise:
Minor premise:
Conclusion:
3.
The
argument is valid because: Eating apples is good for you. Therefore, you won’t
go to the doctor is you eat an apple a day because it is healthy. It is a fallacy
but it is also valid in the math world. The Venn Diagram proves that it is a valid
argument.
4.
This
argument falls under the category of valid and also not sound (true), because
you can make multiple Venn Diagrams for it, and you can eat an apple a day and
still go to the doctor.
5.
If
you eat an apple a day, then you won’t have to go to the doctor.
6.
Using
truth tables I have determined that in conditional form this statement has a
mathematical conclusion; I figured out it was a tautology indeed. It was true
on all accounts. However, even though it makes sense mathematically, it doesn’t
add up in real life; there is no connection between eating apples and doctor’s
visits, so it isn’t logically sound in real life. Truth tables can prove
tautologies; that is how you figure out if it is a tautology or not.
7.
The source
of this statement is undetermined and therefore unreliable, and the date is
unclear (probably recent, as a professor probably whipped this example up for
practice sometimes). While thinking about this argument in regards to the five
steps to evaluating media information, it is safe to say that this argument is
not credible nor accurate.
8.
It is
a fallacy! It falls under the category of hasty generalization.
9.
This
experiment helped me a little to better understand how the kind of stuff we are
working on connects mathematically to real world logic. I also better
understand now how media information is not always reliable, and arguments can
often be based off of fallacies or flawed arguments.
This was an interesting topic!
ReplyDeleteI love your topic choice, that's cool that you picked a common saying to use in this assignment.
ReplyDeletesavanna,
ReplyDeletereally great work on this entry! i like how detailed your explanations are and also, i agree with your fallacy section and how this is most likely an example of hasty generalization. you did a good job on the truth table, as well! the only error that i saw was that your venn diagram is incorrect. they should be two concentric circle in the "all a are b" form. other than that, nice job! =]
professor little