Monday, February 23, 2009

Did You Fail to See the Fallacy?

Well then let me clear it up for you.

Firstly, a fallacy is a bad form of inductive reasoning that leads to a faulty conclusion. Inductive reasoning is similar to deductive reasoning in that it involves a conclusion supported with factual evidence. However, inductive reasoning requires one to make a "leap" of sorts to get to the conclusion. One must traverse an unknown that they are trying to prove.

There are many types of fallacies that one can find in any argument, but the one I'll be analyzing/ruthlessly tearing apart, is a Begging the Question fallacy from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. In my opinion Hitler was a very cynical and contemptuous man, and I believe that many of his arguments and doctrine to be equally so.

In a section of the Mein Kampf, Hitler makes his case for the superiority of the Aryan Race above any other. He argues that the Aryan people are genetically better in every single range of life. While we know this to be false, Hitler makes this argument with the impression that we should already consider this as truth. Hitler is Begging the Question by assuming that an idea he argues has been accepted as truth by the entirety of the world. Not only is his claim untrue, Hitler speaks as if he was the only one intelligent enough to possibly fathom this "truth".

In a certain sense, Hitler is the among the few who could possibly consider this foolishness and claim it as inherently true.

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