The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting. Subfallacies: Appeal to Consequences, Bandwagon Fallacy, Emotional Appeal, Genetic Fallacy, Guilt by Association, Straw Man, Two Wrongs Make a Right Etymology: Taxonomy: Logical Fallacy > Informal Fallacy > Red Herring 26, Smith said he thought Hillary Clinton came out on top.Alias 1: Befogging the Issue, Diversion, Ignoratio Elenchi 2, Ignoring the Issue, Irrelevant Conclusion, Irrelevant Thesis The professor said he hasn't changed or modified his curriculum because of the election but has noted that the election has proven useful when providing examples of what he is teaching.Įlection: For the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton on Sept. Smith said he teaches students to identify fallacies during the debate, such as when one candidate attacks the person rather than their argument. “I’m going to say so far that Hillary is winning, because she seems to do less speculating,” Smith said. Smith said if he were to grade the two, he would give Hillary Clinton a B and Trump a C+. “Trump is doing a better job than he did with the first,” he said, adding that it looked as if Trump had done more research and planned more for this debate. About 40 minutes in, he said, they started to talk about their plans. On Sunday night, Smith admitted the second debate had a rocky start, with both candidates attacking the other's character instead of their policies. Smith said in the first debate, the candidates spent a lot of time defending their characters, which he said was understandable because their characters are in question, but Sunday's debate had to be different. "I think they have to start really as clear as possible, teach us what they want to do, why they want to do it and how it's going to affect things," he said. "They have to come off as if they have a plan and policy," he said, adding that the candidates must say what the policy is and how it works. He said Hillary Clinton's fallacies were harder to detect, which he said might be because she's had more experience in politics.ĭebate: For Sunday night's debate, Smith said the candidates needed to be able to "succinctly explain themselves" to get more support. “When he was asked about his character and his recent tape that came out Friday, he just started talking about ISIS,” Smith said. He also referenced Trump using "red herring." "When he does that, he's not attacking Hillary so much as Bill Clinton," Smith said.įACT CHECK: Clinton And Trump Debate For The Second Time He said it's basically Trump admitting to the tapes from 2005, but Bill Clinton did something too, so it's OK that Trump said what he said.
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"The whole two wrongs make a right argument," Smith said. He said he was using the fallacy of ad hominem - attacking the person instead of the position - and another fallacy, ad hominem tu quoque, which is based in hypocrisy.
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On Sunday night, roughly an hour into the debate, Smith mentioned that Trump was using two different fallacies in bringing in alleged victims of Bill Clinton. “Trump is basically using all of it,” he said. Most politicians use fallacies, but in this election it has been Trump who has been using them most, Smith said. "The point of a fallacy is that it sounds right," he said. Smith: In Smith's class, he teaches his students to detect fallacies, which he said denote "verbal trickery." On Saturday, he described three types of fallacies: psychological, which plays on hopes and fears material, which is making statements without proper information and logical, which he said is just a flaw in logic. Earlier Sunday evening, Trump held a news conference with women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of rape and unwanted sexual advances.