Week 4 Discussion ( Critical Thinking )

 5-7 sentence ( One paragraph ONLY)  

 

Please respond to the following:

There are several types of fallacies: equivocation, false authority, ad hominem, appeal to ignorance, and bandwagon.

  • Please provide two different examples of advertising that show any of these topics.
  • Which of these fallacies is used in each advertisement? Why do you think the advertisers used that fallacy in the ad? Did the advertisers use the fallacy effectively?
  • If you were an advertiser, what would you have done differently to better use the fallacy?