4. Terms might be similar to
the said categorical fallacy:
• Questionable Cause/Irrelevant Cause
• Invalid reasons/Invalid reasoning
• No cause for a cause
(walang kasiguraduhan na ang sinasabing sanhi ay siyang
totoong sanhi ng pangyayari)
5. This is often what women hate about men:
Girl:
I was so disappointed about
him. He was in the news. It is
said, that he was involved in
the so called “audio scandal” -
that was now popular in the
social media.
Boy:
It is not so much surprising
actually because he’s just a
man and nothing to argue with
that.
6. This is often what women hate about men:
Let’s ask the boys first:
Do you think the answer
was reasonable in your
own sense?
and let’s try to ask girls, too:
Do you like it
as an answer to the question?
7. This is often what women hate about men:
when you’re just a man then
you’re free of being involved
from such mistakes
To argue about it, without
considering other causes and
either showing such causes to be
true or false, is to argue
fallaciously.
8. This is often what women hate about men:
This example is different from
Fallacy of Argumentum ad
Hominem (preference).
- the argument that attack the
other person to divert the
attention away from the real
issues involved.
But here, the respondent
uses or reasoned out the
preference of a person as
a cause of something that
happen.
9. False Cause by using advertisement:
Share a Coke,
Share Happiness.
The happiness that you’re experiencing this afternoon
is not caused by a soft drink (Coca-Cola) that you
have been drinking last morning.
10. False Cause by using coincidence:
The rooster crows immediately before sunrise,
therefore the rooster causes the sun to rise.
13. Question: When?
Boy: Will you marry me?
Girl: Yes! … I knew it; you’ll gonna proposed today.
Boy: Oh… so, you were not surprised. Who actually told you
about it? Is it my cousin?
Girl: Well, I knew it from my horoscope that I will be the
luckiest person today.
Believers of Horoscope
commits fallacy:
14. Question: When?
Answer:
When you infer something happened today from
what you have read/heard last morning in the
horoscope. Because actually (scientifically speaking),
there’s no connection of it from what had happen
today.
Believers of Horoscope
commits fallacy:
15. Question: Why is it fallacious?
Answer:
Is everything happen in our life follows words from
horoscope? The fallacy committed when you use
horoscope as a cause of something happen.
Believers of Horoscope
commits fallacy:
16. Who among you here
love reading Horoscope?
Nothing will lost when you believe, but never
blame it when believing about it leads to failure.
17. The horoscope is just a prediction.
It doesn’t govern the day what ever
do prediction said about to what will happen.
18. “Lucky Number 9”
Your thing (e.g. Lucky Charms)
does not have some sort of magical
quality that
makes you lucky.
19. How to be a good writer?
The bigger a child's shoe size,
the better the child's handwriting.
Therefore, having big feet makes it easier to write.
How to be a good speaker?
During election, most of the winning candidates come
from Liberal Party. Yellow ribbon represents them.
Therefore, if I’m going to wear yellow shirt I will
achieve my dream to be a good speaker.
20. Fail to understand Déjà vu:
(Some familiar events repetitively happened)
B1: Let’s continue this; I know we’ll win this
game… (In the end, they won)
B2: Amazing! Isn’t it? How did you know that? Have
you been in the future?
B1: Hmmm… you know what? I dreamed about it last
night.
Ace: Yes! Myth says that when you’re having sleep
dreams, you’re actually seeing the future.
21. Fail to understand Déjà vu:
(Some familiar events repetitively happened)
Think about this;
As ice cream sales increase, the rate of drowning
deaths increases sharply.
Therefore, ice cream consumption causes drowning.
Related Example:
22. Fail to understand Déjà vu:
(Some familiar events repetitively happened)
The illustration is a correlation
between ice cream
consumption and crime,
but shows that the actual
cause is temperature.
23. Fail to understand Déjà vu:
(Some familiar events repetitively happened)
The cause of winning
is not about the sleep dream. It is
actually cause by continuing the
game, because they don’t give up.
24. False Cause by analysis of psychologist:
Violent person is
watching violent
videos,
Therefore,
violent videos
cause person’s
violent behavior.
Mostly we commit this fallacy because of
the occurrence of coincidence.
It is wrong because coincidently
violence behavior occurs, not that it
happen because the video consist
violence.
Mostly we commit this fallacy because
of ignoring underlying cause.
Violence behavior maybe caused
genetically inherited underlying mental
illness.
Mostly we commit this fallacy because of reversing causation.
violent behavior causes violent videos.
x violent videos causes violent behavior.
25. POST HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– after this
therefore because of this
CUM HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC
– with this
therefore because of this
B 11
X Y X or YX Y
Possibly Happened
26. POST HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– after this
therefore because of this
27. POST HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– after this
therefore because of this
The fire was not huge,
before the firemen came into the picture.
The example blames the firemen
as the cause of huge fire.
Firemen
Huge Fire
More firemen
causes fire
B
1
1
28. CUM HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– with this
therefore because of this
(False Cause by suspecting)
You and your boyfriend are eating dinner together while a
prostitute eating alone from the other table.
You left your boyfriend for less than an hour for you to go to the
comfort room.
But when you came back your boyfriend is missing.
You try to look for the prostitute if it’s still there but you fail to
find it.
You concluded that your boyfriend is with the prostitute.
29. CUM HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– with this
therefore because of this
(False Cause by suspecting)
Example related to the previous:
You You You
Prostitute your enemy Cat
Boyfriend your wallet Fish
30. CUM HOC ERGO PROTER HOC
– with this
therefore because of this
(False Cause by suspecting)
Suggestive cause:
She doesn’t know maybe her boyfriend go for a
comfort room, too.
She doesn’t know maybe her boyfriend just ordered
some more food.
She doesn’t know maybe she found a wrong table.
I highly suggest that we must first test
everything and hold on to what is good.
This Fallacy is often what women hate about men.When girl said: (read on slide)
And when boy answered: (read on slide)
Now, let’s ask the boys first: (read on slide)what ever your answer is, to be fair let’s ask the girls side:
So, if you answered yes to the questions, therefore we say, (read on slide), but if we all disagree to those questions from previous slide, of course this statement is wrong. (read on slide).
Ad hominem uses persons preference for whatever your purpose is, like convincing people not to believe in such ideas or statement, which is fallacious.Here in False Cause you often used person preference as a cause of something that happen.
This fallacy is somehow committed in TV commercials or Product Advertisement.Are you familiar with (read slide) ?Let me show you a short video clip.(read slide)
False Cause fallacy are committed usually in misinterpreting coincidence situations. (Read slide)The rooster doesn’t have some sort of magical quality to control the sun when to rise.
(Read slide)whoever you are, (next slide)
(read slide) the question is when.
Before that, let’s try to see this situation: (read slide)
The answer to the question is, (read slide)
Another, why is it fallacious?
Now, I’m not telling you to hate everything about horoscope. (read slide)
Another thing, let me show you a conversation of all star basketball player and his friend.
How to be a good speaker? Now your thinking the real thing, but let’s focus to this fallacious argument.
(read slide)The person trying to connect being a good speaker to a politician. Because they are good in convincing people to vote for them. But he fails to see that yellow colors do not have magical quality to make people a good speaker instantly.
Assuming that we don’t know the real answer on how to be a good writer. It is said that, (read slide)The person fail to see the connection between having a big feet and writing easily.It would have a good correlation if when you told someone to buy a shoes then wrote your own size on a piece of paper but the sales lady fail to read your penmanship (other external factors would be spellings).
This is one thing that I can connect/relate our subject for today into our desired academic course.Déjà vu is some familiar events repetitively happen in our life experience.Example situation/conversation would be: (read slide)
To understand, let’s think about this first, (read slide) I’ll show you an illustration.
(after reading, proceed immediately to the next slide)
In connection to our original example (read slide)
Another false cause fallacy committed by some nagpa atik atik nga psychologist.
False cause in latin words (read slide) or no cause for a cause (read slide) B event was cause by 1 that possibly happened before.Before we forgot, B belongs to alphabets while 1 belongs to numbers.X and Y occurred at the same time, therefore X/Y cause Y/X. But for our purposes, we will treat these two as if they were exactly the same.
An example for post hoc is this (read slide)
So, the huge/big fire is caused by firemen.
An example for cum hoc is this, usually by suspecting someone that cause something.