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

Monday, February 16, 2015

Breanna Reyes-Chapman


Hasty Generalization
The police authorities entertained the idea that some sinister connection existed between the Borough poisoner and the mysterious murderer of Whitechapel, popularly known as Jack-the-Ripper.

How the circumstances surrounding them are coincident with the career of Chapman.
Cum Hoc
With this they used the timeline to support this argument here are a few examples;
Jack-The-Ripper: First murder of the series committed, in August, 1888.
Chapman: Chapman arrived in London some time in 1888; worked and lived in Whitechapel.
Jack-The-Ripper: No Ripper murders in England, but similar murders in America, in the locality of Jersey City.
Chapman: Chapman and his wife left in May 1890, for America, where Chapman opened a barber’s shop at Jersey City.

This is clearly a good timeline it shows that Chapman was in the area when these murders occurred. They have many more examples and it is confirming the statement.
Wishful Thinking
This based largely on the opinion of Inspector Frederick Abberline, who was said to have remarked “You’ve got Jack The Ripper at last!”

Abberline never wavered in his firm conviction that Chapman and Jack-The-Ripper were one and the same person.

With the police backing up these claims you know they are right because they have evidence that suggests that he was involved.
Begging the Question
That Chapman’s career coincides exactly with the movements and operations of Jack-The-Ripper must appeal strongly to all who endeavor to throw light upon the shadows of the latter’s obscurity.

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