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Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Devil Bird ( Perelman)


Premises
Facts/ truths (supposed)
Since there isn’t much evidence on the devil bird and at least have had one person see the bird in action helps with believing that the bird is true.
Loci (quality)
The devil bird has only been seen a couple of times making it seem like since not that many people have seen the animal will make it more believable 

The Normal
By adding the experience of a reference group which in this case is from 2001 will mostly base it off that to get peoples attention
Premise modifier
Presence (Repetition)
Repeating that the bird has a special calling but any might mistake it for other birds calling. As well as saying that no one has seen the bird in action. 
(Amplification)
Not that many people have seen the bird since its unique but it’s still there when you get the chance to see the bird
(Aggregation)
Adding that some people who have actually looked into it such as Dr. R.L. with the book ‘The Far of things’ since there has already seen a Hawk-eagle makes it more likely. As well as adding names to the list to call the Devil Bird makes it confusing and not like hard facts.

Space
Even though one person has seen the Devil- Bird, they start off with how others have maybe heard of the cry. Even though not that many people have seen the Devil Bird, it brings them closer to the animal.
Establishing the Structure of Reality
Example (single) 
There has only been one person who has seen the devil bird and that was in the year 2001 that they heard the cry and seen in action 
Quasi-logical arguments
Incompatibility
(Autophagia)- Retort
With the experience from 2001, there wasn’t a clarification that the Devil Bird was seen, more of a ‘maybe’ but also comparing it to another that it might have been.
Definition (Condensed)
By finding commonalities it brings out the similar animals that the observers might be mistaking the devil bird for because no one has actually seen the animal but also looking at what it can look like

2 comments:

  1. I like how you stuck to the quantity component in your argument. All of the fallacies relate back to how many times the bird has been seen. I would continue making your argument about this but also talk about how that because only one person has seen this bird, then that might disprove that this creature exists.

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  2. Hi Marlin!
    One possible angle you could take with this argument is about how since there was only one big sighting in 2001, they are providing as much detail as possible to make up for there not being multiple sightings. I think it's common to see an argument being made by citing lots of experiences to have a more convincing argument, so it's interesting that they focus all of their time and attention on bringing this one event to the forefront.

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