Unauthorized

I looked at the rhetorical fallacy for false authority. There have been many articles or information given to the world that are not credible due to the author having a lack of authority. Many people would get tricked by an author's credibility because the author seems to have a well developed knowledge of the subject or is a leading figure in some other field of knowledge. I probably have been fooled by a few of these articles without even knowing it since the articles are quite frequent. The way I plan to solve this fallacy is before using resources on papers or anything else, I plan to view the author's background information. This way I can truly know if the pieces of evidence I use in research analysis are credible.

Phones and Poisons

I think the rhetorical and ethos fallacy called “Poisoning the Well” is very interesting, and to be honest, quite hysterical at times.  When I first read about this fallacy I almost laughed out loud because it brought back many memories of my family.  Apparently we are very good fallacies of ethos and we did not even know it!  There have been many times that one of us will tease another member in our family, but get someone else blamed for it.  I am often the one being teased, and my dad and sister find it comical to take my phone when I am not looking.  I never know which one did it, so one of them will blame the other.  They will point out things that the other person is doing or things they are saying that should obviously mean they are guilty of stealing my phone, when in reality, they are the one that took it in the first place!  It makes me so confused that I rarely can figure out who took my phone; it normally takes up to thirty minutes just to figure out who took it!  I think that it is easier to detect this rhetorical fallacy when you know the people you are dealing with.  When you know someone on a more personal level, then you are better able to decipher what is the truth and what is the poison.  When you are not familiar with the author or the people you are working with, it is important that you take a step back, and look at the full picture.  When you give yourself a broader perspective, you are better able to look at the situation logically and decipher what you think is the truth.