Revenge of?.....

Appeal to Spite seemed interesting to talk about. The book Critical Thinking described Appeal to Spite as the hope of revenge as an invariably rejection as bad by some people on moral grounds. Here's an example:

Wally: Hey can you help me?
Richelle: Yeah sure what's wrong?
Wally: I think my coil packs burned out, I need to go to the Volkswagen dealership, can you bring me there?
Richelle: Okay I gotchu`.
Eric: (whispering) Dude.. remember he was suppose to bring you the body shop for your car but he hella flaked on you? Why you helping him?
Wally: Dammit Eric!

This is a good example of an Appeal to Spite. Basically, Wally(me) is asking for help even though I didn't help Richelle before. Richelle agrees to help, but Eric comes out of no where and reminds Richelle of why is she helping me when I didn't help her. More or less, it deals with revenge.

I won this game at a Lan thing yesterday. Halo tournament 1st place wooooo!

Truth Commercials? Are they foreal?

So I chose number 3 from the exercise questions on page 195 of Critical Thinking. The question was to find an advertisement that uses an appeal to fear and tell weather it is a good argument or not.

I had found this advertisement I saw awhile ago on tv, here's commercial.



This was a commercial from the anti-tobacco group called truth. In here you see a bunch of fake body bags being tossed around in front of the tobacco industry to show how many people they kill per day. The problem is, how do they get these statistics? If the argument is true, then they have a reason to disrupt the building to show what they are doing. If not, well then it is against Truth. More or less they are trying to show that they should stop selling cigarettes because it is killing around 1200 people per day. But the argument is bad considering you don't know whether the statics are true or not.

I saw this G35 in top of the 7th street garage the other day and I was like DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN. HELLA LOW. You can see the dime I put on the front bumper in the picture of the whole car hahaha.

Just like fear from a horror movie

The book, "Critical Thinking" describes appeal to emotion "as an argument is just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way". From what I feel, I believe appeal to emotion is a way of trying to manipulate someone to do a certain action within a certain emotion.

There are many different ways to appeal to an emotion, which are: Appeal to Pity, Appeal to Fear, Appeal to Spite, and Appeal to Vanity.

The one that caught my eye was the Appeal to Fear. The book Critical Thinking describes Appeal to Fear as, "a way politicians and advertisers manipulate people." The reason that caught my eye was that this type of appeal to emotion is seen all the time. An example could be the "Truth" commercials. They try to find horrible ways that smoking could effect the future of different people in many vulgar ways.

So I tried one of these Monday. FYI only try it if you are healthy.....

Vague.. The Return of..

So there was one thing I remember talking about in my blogs that I remember i discussed that became a pet peeve of mine. Part C. Section 2 of Chapter 8 talking about Vague generalities. Nothing more irritates me the most but being vague.

The book "Critical Thinking discusses" Vague generalities, like using word combinations such as "very few" or "almost all". More or less an analogy of a oxymoron.

An example would be:

Almost all Honda's have VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control).

This is vague considering using the words almost all. Almost could be replaced by the word some. It's either all or some. Saying almost all just confuses the listener or reader who is trying to figure out the amount of Honda's that have VTEC.

Here's a great picture after a party this morning. I guess it's my DJ setup after the party and it's my in that picture when i was in 8th Grade.

OP-ED CRED lol

The first Major assignment was to be, a consideration of important skills to learn how to analyze. The reason for this is how almost everything is done by analyzing. When is comes to going through an essay or reading book, everything is analyzed. But I found the first assignment really helpful.

When started by trying to understand the major claim. Then we went about going through the premises and claims that help support the main claim. The reason for this is to check if the the whole argument discussed in the editorial is a valid and good argument. We then try to find what type of evidence is included, find a description in the editorial, and discuses to prove if the editorial is strong/valid.

With these type of techniques to analyze anything, you will be golden. These techniques are I would believe are essential in order to have a good analyze of an argument.

Talk about a party, I don't know why but I took a picture of this. Reminds me of crepes.

Validation to the Club Please?

So I remember I talked about before how in a week of discussion, I was comparing something with discrete math. Well in Chapter 8, there is an explanation in party B. "Some Valid and Invalid Forms" that has a diagram EXACTLY like discrete math, so here it is.



This diagram pretty much sums up the whole beginning of discrete math.

Well on to describe this graph, it describes the different with talking in a direct way of reasoning and arguing backwards with all. A direct way is considered valid. The example explained is about how you start with For All S are P, a is S, So a is P. You start from S then you end with P.

An example is All Yellow Cars are Bright. Wally has a Yellow Volkswagen. Thus Wally has a Bright car.

Arguing backwards makes a statement weak: All Yellow Cars are Bright. Wally has a Bright Car. Wally has a Yellow Volkswagen. With that said there are other bright cars that are not yellow, like red and laguna blue. With that statement arguing backwards thus makes an argument weak.

This picture is gonna be a good memory in my life, well not really but a good one. My friend I met a day ago at a party that I realize kicked it with hella of my friends back in high school. WHAT A TRIP!

me and Crackin Candace

It's Best to Ignore Most of the Internet Sometimes..

Chapter 5 had something about advertising withing an online site. The whole point of advertising is to persuade someone in buying their product.

This is going to be my opinion on this so don't take this serious. I honestly believe that you SHOULD NOT believe ANYTHING on the internet unless proven. Regardless if it's Wikipedia, comments or status updates on Facebook, and even pop up or regular online advertising. Just going on Facebook have a lot of advertising that can be questionable. Just today, I saw an ad on Facebook talking about increasing size for a male. To prove the true conclusion for this product for this question, I did a little bit of research. I went on Google to searched up the product and I found many sources, such as forums, Yahoo answers, etc.. Majority of them has claimed that it doesn't work. But then again, I would be contradicting myself if I were to believe the online sources I found. The only best source I would believe would be if I actually try it my self. I obviously didn't buy the product but if to know if the product works, I would have to try it.

This was my awesome dinner today. Happy Birthday Dad!!