An easy guide that helps you write better – with less erratic statements and words in your work.

An easy guide that helps you write better – with less erratic statements and words in your work.

What are fallacies?

Too often is the phrase "begs the question" misused. The intention of this article is to explain the phrase and give a funny example, from Moore and Parker’s textbook, of begging the question.

A fallacy is a flaw in argument, an irrational statement that has no logical grounds for consideration.

I was browsing through a website today when I came across an article titled, “Israel has the right to defend itself”, and although most of the world has heard President Bush reiterate this statement during the Israeli–Lebanese war, it suddenly struck me how this line has become repeated gospel to every Christian Zionist, republican, and those still convinced and angry nineteen Arabs hijacked four flights on September 11, 2001. Out of the blue the alarm bells went off and the thought hit me squarely between the eyes: “this is propaganda….this is a fallacious argument!”