Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

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

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Fallacy/ P-OT charts

 Fallacy Chart

Appeal to Force/Fear

 

Her violently throwing what was not hers is using force/fear that if its not hers then it is wrong.

While heavily blindfolded, she takes a box of letters received from friends and sits down, examines each one, and reads them (out loud) without error or hesitation. Father and friends put their own letters in with hers, and while heavily blindfolded, she correctly draws out the intruding letters and examines them. She reads aloud the address and throws violently away every letter not her own.

Post Hoc

 

Because Mary died, the spirit moved on to Lurrany.

Mary returns to good health, but her violent fits increase, and her parents are advised to place her in an asylum; however, on July 5, 1865, while her parents are in Peoria, Mary enters into a violent fit and dies. -----

Now, Lurrany Vennum comes into the picture. She was born July 11, 1864.

Unrepresentative Sample

 

They believe the house is haunted but no evidence.

Summation:  I made no paranormal findings.

Hasty Generalization

 

They say they heard the word “bitch” but it sounded more like a frog cut off.

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P-OT chart

Repetition

Say it again. And again. And again.

 

She knows the names and life histories of friends and neighbors from the period of 1852-1865.

 

She recalls hundreds of incidents that transpired during her natural life.

 

It repeats SHE a couple more times

Observed

Concrete data.

 

She was born October 8, 1846, and died July 5, 1865.

Presence

Drawing attention to premises.

 

During a very despondent mood on July 16, 1864, Mary secretly took a knife with her to the back yard and cut her arm terribly, until bleeding excessively, she fainted.

Dilemma

Two choices have the same result or an equally bad result.

 

Both groups went to investigate, and both complained about the ‘noise contamination’

Pragmatic

Evaluation of an act through consequences.

 

They evaluated the girl as she went through fits that included lots of bleeding, and also evaluated her as she fought back.








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