One of the most successful and popular early American writers, Washington Irving couldn't have had a clue as to what legacy he would leave behind while he still walked the earth. Thinking of himself primarily as an essayist and a humorist, he had no inkling that his true calling would be to transform foreign folk tales into appealing moralistic stories for an eager American audience.
The memoir spent over 260 weeks in hardcover on The New York Times Best Seller list and it remained on the paperback nonfiction bestseller list until October 10, 2018, having persisted for 440 weeks.
Fallacies are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim. Avoid these common fallacies in your own arguments and watch for them in the arguments of others.
“I drank bottled water and now I am sick. The water must have made me sick” (post hoc ergo proctor hoc)
“People who don’t support the increase of state minimum wage hate the poor” (straw man)
“If we ban hummers because they’re bad for the environment, then eventually we’ll ban all cars. So we shouldn’t ban hummers.” (Slippery slope)
Either/Or. an example can be “we can either stop using cars or we can destroy the earth” this is a fallacy because it is making assumptions and over exaggerating. It is also assuming cars are the only problem destroying the earth, which is incorrect.
