TASK 10 ANALYZE WAYS TO AVOID LOGICAL FALLACIES In the article about Sweden's prison system, both the author, Erwin Jame
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2022 3:49 pm
TASK 10 ANALYZE WAYS TO AVOID LOGICAL FALLACIES
In the article about Sweden's prison system, both the author, Erwin James, and the interviewee, Nis Oberg use careful language to avoid expressing logical fallacies based on cause and effect. They do this as a rhetorical strategy to make their arguments more convincing.
Analyze the following two excerpts from the article, underlining language that is used to avoid any of the four logical fallacies you have just studied. Then write which logical fallacy you think Oberg is avoiding, and why.
1. With reoffending rates at about 40%...does he attribute this success to the country's effective policies on prisoner rehabilitation? "We obviously believe that it is part of the explanation; we hope we are doing something right. But it's going to be very difficult to prove that scientifically. We are increasing our efforts all the time" he says. [LINEs 16-21]
2. Last year a "national client survey" of several thousand Swedish prisoners was undertaken in order to identify the issues that have affected their criminal behaviour. "The survey did not bring up any surprises, but it gave us confirmation of what we have learned from experience-that is not one problem that our clients face, but two or more, sometimes as many as seven or eight different ones, including perhaps drugs, alcohol and psychiatric problems.
And these problems did not just appear overnight...Our strategy is to cover the whole range of problems, not just the one problem". [LINES 22-32]
In the article about Sweden's prison system, both the author, Erwin James, and the interviewee, Nis Oberg use careful language to avoid expressing logical fallacies based on cause and effect. They do this as a rhetorical strategy to make their arguments more convincing.
Analyze the following two excerpts from the article, underlining language that is used to avoid any of the four logical fallacies you have just studied. Then write which logical fallacy you think Oberg is avoiding, and why.
1. With reoffending rates at about 40%...does he attribute this success to the country's effective policies on prisoner rehabilitation? "We obviously believe that it is part of the explanation; we hope we are doing something right. But it's going to be very difficult to prove that scientifically. We are increasing our efforts all the time" he says. [LINEs 16-21]
2. Last year a "national client survey" of several thousand Swedish prisoners was undertaken in order to identify the issues that have affected their criminal behaviour. "The survey did not bring up any surprises, but it gave us confirmation of what we have learned from experience-that is not one problem that our clients face, but two or more, sometimes as many as seven or eight different ones, including perhaps drugs, alcohol and psychiatric problems.
And these problems did not just appear overnight...Our strategy is to cover the whole range of problems, not just the one problem". [LINES 22-32]