3 Fallacies For Election Season!
YouTube
- Creator
- PBS Idea Channel (Channel)
- Watched
- 2016-08-31
- Published
- 2016-08-31
- Category
- Education
- Duration
- 11m 50s
- Link
- Watch on YouTube ↗
- Tags
- 2016 appeal to emotion appeal to nature clinton debate debates discourse election season fallacies fallacy general election idea channel mike rugnetta non sequitur pbs pbs digital studios pbs idea channel politics primary election strawman strawmike trump
Description
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea YOU DID A FALLACY Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com In the US it’s presidential election season. There are lots of people expounding upon about all kinds of high stakes topics: what’s best for you, the country, what’s gonna keep everyone safe, and successful. Candidates, pundits, your pals: making points, making promises, making arguments. In the course of the political proceedings ... I’ve seen plenty of the fallacies we’ve covered before on Idea Channel, but there are a few cropping up that we haven’t yet covered–so I thought we’d better. Today we’ll discuss the “Appeal to Emotion Fallacy,” the “Non-Sequitur Fallacy” the “Appeal to Nature Fallacy” and how you might be seeing them pop up in this election season. Let us know what you think in the comments below! ---CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!--- http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B T-Shirts Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ -- ATLAS OBSCURA EVENT -- http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/ny-atlas-obscura-live-rivals -- BOOK CLUB - https://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/4x8r9c/idea_channel_book_club_borges/ -- Non Sequiturs, aka Formal Fallacies -- https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/76/Denying-a-Conjunct http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non_sequitur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct ---TWEET OF THE WEEK--- https://twitter.com/Kenkire/status/769772575996022784 ---ASSET LINKS--- 1:56 Nixon vs Kennedy photo - http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/08/politics/gallery/nixon/ 2:25 Helen Lovejoy Think of the Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg 3:08 Salt Chart http://www.aarp.org/food/diet-nutrition/info-06-2010/less_salt_in_dailydiet.html 3:53 Non Sequitur definition https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur 7:45 Humes Law http://slideplayer.com/slide/5313429/ 10:15 In Politics Sometimes Facts Don’t Matter http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874 ---MUSIC--- https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)