Your students will get a fun and engaging introductory lesson to 10 of the most common logical / rhetorical fallacies using memes and the included handout. Make a meme Make a gif Make a chart Red Herring. This tactic is common when someone doesn’t like the current topic and wants to detour into something else instead, something easier or safer to address. The term red herring is sometimes used loosely to refer to any kind of diversionary tactic, such as presenting relatively unimportant arguments that will use up the other debaters' speaking time and distract them from more important issues.
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Explore Cucumber Pipkin's board "fallacy memes" on Pinterest. The red herring is as much a debate tactic as it is a logical fallacy. This can be one of the most frustrating, and effective, fallacies to observe. 3) Red Herring With the red herring fallacy, someone will introduce an irrelevant topic into the argument in an attempt to redirect the attention of their interlocutor or of nearby listeners. If you can knock down even the best version of an opponent’s argument, then you’ve really accomplished something. The interactive slide show allows students to play along and try to determine which fallacy is represented by each meme. So the arguer hasn’t really scored any points he or she has just committed a fallacy. A “red herring fallacy” is a distraction from the argument typically with some sentiment that seems to be relevant but isn’t really on-topic. In literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters, or to induce them to make false conclusions. Someone may use this fallacy when they do not want to directly answer someone's question or when they are simply unable to adeptly refute an argument. Make a Meme Make a GIF Make a Chart Make a Demotivational. Red herring is an idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue.
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Unlike the straw man, which involves a distortion of the other party's position, the red herring is a seemingly plausible, though ultimately irrelevant, diversionary tactic.