Fallacies surround people in everyday life. We use fallacies in our everyday speech, our decision-making, critical thinking, and are affected by them in the pummeling of advertising surrounding us. Fallacies can be as simple as appealing to emotion instead of logical reasoning. I will examine some fallacies, how they affect critical thinking and decision-making. While showing examples of common advertising that effects our perceptions.
Fallacy Summary and Application Paper
Joe'sPrinting is a small business, with 14 employees. The company is a quick commercial printer, which requires tight turnaround times, and high levels of customer service. Joe's Printing has three locations, two retail sales fronts, and a production facility. The individual that has been in trouble is our deliver driver, let us call him Dan. Dan has been employed with the company for almost five years, which quite a while to be a deliver driver for any company. Unfortunately, Dan is experiencing some difficult health problems.
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English: Flowchart of Rational Planning and Decisi...Recently Dan and I were involved in a confrontation. During business hours, Dan delivered some items to the retail location that I am manager. The location was currently busy with three customers waiting at the counter for service with our customer service representative and myself assisting customers. Dan drops off the jobs on the table and interrupts the customer and myself telling me that he requires an invoice for a customer's job. I ask him to wait till the customers have left, which would take five to ten minutes. Unfortunately, he became belligerent and commences a rant that he does not have time to wait for an invoice. I immediately excuse myself and tell him to sit down in the back and wait. Continuing his rant, he leaves the store to bring additional finished jobs inside the building. When he returns 15 minutes...