Learn From Your Mistakes – Philosophy

We all commit logical errors from time to time. Being able to catch our own errors and correct them is far more important than trying to be perfect. For this assignment, I want you to go through each of your assignments throughout the semester. Find at least three instances of logical fallacies that you have committed. Explain why your error counts as an example of the logical fallacy you claim. Why do you think you committed this fallacy (lazy thinking, stubbornness, overzealousness, etc.)?

Make sure that you match the correct fallacy with your logical error. Make sure that you explain why your error counts as this particular fallacy. Points will be taken off for connecting the wrong fallacy to your error and for explaining your error poorly.

If you think you have been so very, very careful this semester that you have not made any mistakes (quite an achievement!), go through your work and find a place where you almost made an error or where you corrected your thinking before submitting the assignment. In other words, if you don’t think you have any mistakes (!) find places where you have made fallacious arguments in the past and how you have changed your thinking.

This is one of the most difficult assignments of the semester, so do the work very carefully. It is weighted slightly higher than the other assignments throughout the semester.

The fallacies students tend to find in their work most readily are: straw figure arguments (also called straw man), circular reasoning, and red herrings. The fallacy of the undistributed middle (which in practice often becomes treating two things as the same because they share a single commonality) is also common as is the inductive fallacy called unwarranted generalization.

**********attached is all my assignments over the semester***************