In partial
requirement for BEL 313,
Introduction
to Critical Thinking.
Test #2,
Semester 1 2013/2014,
Universiti
Teknologi MARA, Seri
Iskandar
Campus, Perak Darul Ridzuan.
Submitted by: Mohammad Faisal Bin
Abu Hanifah, UiTM # 2011269464
The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People.
After reading
this article, I found that the author tries to share on how to become cool
people for teenagers. The author suggests some of the ways in this article. This
article is interesting to be read but there are some fallacies which can be found
in it. Firstly, there is an example of appeal to ignorance in the first
paragraph. It is clearly shown in the sentence “because I am an adult and I
know better. Well, actually, it is because I am ‘The Guru of Cool’”. From this
statement, the author attempts to mention that we should believe in elder
people. But without any prove we cannot accept this statement.
Other than that,
this article also contains appeal to inappropriate authority. It is used in the
sentence which states “Even my friends tell me dancing is the best form of
exercise”. His friends are not the people who have any authority or
qualification to clarify the given statement. We cannot easily agree with this
statement without any supporting fact. Also, in the sentence “I know, I know,
some of you are allowed to drink alcohol when you come of age”, I found that
the author also uses appeal to traditional. Clearly, the writer does not
provide any strong evidence to support the statement.
In conclusion,
this article is a fun reading material but we cannot directly agree with any
statement written by the author. There are some disputable fallacies found in
this article because it lacks the evidences.
(250 words)
-ABE-
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