In the Presidential debate, both candidates committed a plethora of logical fallacies. In particular, both used the numbers=facts=truth to better enhance their claims, especially when speaking about economic matters. Two tactics employed in conjunction by the McCain camp is attacking the person and guilt by association in regards to Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and ACORN. This is a blatant logical fallacy because just because one is associated with someone who was apart of a radical organization does not make them a terrorist if they were not apart of said organization. Jacoby speaks upon a similar situation and the stigma and name calling in which people were called communists if they knew anyone who was Communist or express any diverging ideals.
The primary outcome of this essay is to express the prevalence of logical fallacies and their ineffectiveness. Also, to show how the public is easily persuaded into believing these fallacies.
What I need to consider about my audience is that not everyone believes that a logical fallacy is actually false and to not write my paper just toward a left, Democratic audience.
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