Concept Of fallacious arguments and analysis of fallacious arguments in the movie Twelve Angry-Men :- Fallacy is a misconception which results from incorrect reasoning. According to traditional accounts fallacy is a pattern of bad reasoning which appears to be a pattern of good reasoning. Some other researchers define a fallacy an argument which is not good. Basically we can divide fallacy into two parts namely informal fallacy and formal fallacy. Informal fallacy is a misconception because of its form and its content. Formal fallacy is a misconception because of its logical form. When someone tries to present fallacy, it is usually presented in three ways: 1- When someone try to present invalid argument as a valid argument. 2- Presenting argument …show more content…
What do you mean? It’s just common sense. Above statement is a informal fallacy where THREE is assuming his thinking to be common sense. As we know that informal fallacy is not very easy to detect and it would be very difficult to prove the statement of three to be a fallacy. SEVEN (low). I … don’t think … he’s guilty. Just because you think something to be right, you cannot assume it to be true. Above argument is a formal fallacy because its logically incorrect because of no evidences to his argument. TEN. I don’t understand you people. How can you believe this kid is innocent? Look, you know how those people lie. I don’t have to tell you. They don’t know what truth is. And lemme tell you, they—(FIVE gets up from table, turns his back to it, and goes to window)—don’t need any real big reason to kill someone either. You know, they get drunk, and bang, someone’s lying in the gutter. Nobody’s blaming them. That’s how they are. You know what I mean? Actually in the above argument TEN has himself developed a minority thinking towards people living in slums. And just because he thinks himself to be right, he is trying to suppress evidences and making his best to convert invalid argument to valid