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Who:

David McCandless

What:

Common Rhetological Fallacies

Where:

Common Rhetological Fallacies [ PNG ]

When:

Released April, 2012

The Gist:

This image contains lists of example of different common rhetological fallacies. Each fallacy comes with an example, and a small descriptive image to represent the fallacy.

The Good:

• Pictures are Easy to Understand
• Fallacies are sorted into color-coded sections
• All the sources are cited at the bottom of the image

The Bad:

• Some of the fallacies may seem oversimplified
• All of the authors and citations appear at the very bottom of the image, where the sources are in a small font

The Questions:

• What fallacies did not make onto the list and why?
• How can reading this document help public speakers with the art of rhetoric?
• Could some of the sections be split into smaller subsections (while still remaining useful)?

Overall I found this list of fallacies interesting; when reading through the examples I found quite a few fallacies that I commonly use in arguments. I hope if I were to get nothing else from this picture that it helps me eliminate the use of those fallacies in my speech. 9/10 Dropped Packets