Monday, February 16, 2009

Blog 10

In the last presentation for this week is done by my group which is me, Nooraini and my partner Syafinaz. We get the next topic which is Reading 4.5 ‘Crooked and Fallacious Thinking’. It’s very interesting topic and I really like it. I and my partner give a full commitment to deliver the best toward our presentation.
The crooked and fallacious thinking is a trick of human thinking. It is a development of a clear and perceptive outlook entails the ability to think logically and to recognizes and analyse instances of crooked and fallacious thinking. Crooked means a dishonest thinking and a kinds of bad thinking way. It likes a confusing way of thinking that can bring something to another path of thinking. Same also with are fallacious thinking which is a way of confusing and disturbing of thinking. The two of this trick can let to bring a problem toward us, other people or to surrounding.
I and my partner start with explaining the ten elements. This text is written to inform, to educate and to investigate about the thinking trick by human. It also delivers about the information of this trick and how to recognise it in our condition of life thinking.
The trick also can be transfer devices. by this devices it use as a medium to transfer a one information or prestige of something or someone to another way, could it be a bad thing or a good thing. For example like a status of Doctor, Lawyer or so on. Public might think positive about them and by using this trick it can be a different thing.
In this trick also have a few different types like circular argument which is a crooked thinker give the impression that he is saying something meaningful and logical when he is in fact not proving anything and simply drawing his conclusion. This kind of people always likes to judge something and give his opinion toward it. Next is false analogy, it is a used to support and argument in fact proves nothing. They like to add something that can relate to what they want to deliver but it’s can’t proves nothing.
Other than that, is a equivocation. It is a fallacy arises because some of the word used in argument may be ambiguous and can give a different meaning. Like example is the word gay, it can give a two meaning which is a cheerful mood or a mien that is homosexual. So it can give a different perception to the reader or listener. It also same with a assumption. Assumption is a people opinion about something or someone. It can be a several of assumption whether a bad or good assumption. Maybe because of the assumption it can create a problem.
Crooked and fallacious thinking usually use in term of advertisement or campaign mood in order to persuade or make the people thinks toward something. It can be a good and bad thing. So we suppose to know how to faces with this types of mind trick. After finished the presentation, we proceed with a question and Miss Syida also give her opinion and experience in facing a crooked and fallacious thinking way.
Before finished the class, Miss have told about the last topic that we have to make and another one presentation for a next class. There a lot of input that we get for this week presentation.

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