I know clever and funny people. Today’s Daily Create asked us to illustrate our favourite fallacy. I chose this – note my use of Wikipedia as a source:
And got the following two responses:
Take 2! #tdc1980 #30daytdc Fallicious Follies!! **sigh** indeed pic.twitter.com/ecmPgnsSz5
— Jenni Hayman (@jennihayman) June 11, 2017
#ds106 #tdv1980 #30dayTDC A Loaded Question pic.twitter.com/wu9XNV4oDB
— Karen Richardson (@witchyrichy) June 11, 2017
Which Karen elaborated on:
we hear it so often, we don’t recognizeit as a loaded question which leads toanother fallacy: just repeating it doesn’t make it true. #ds106
— Karen Richardson (@witchyrichy) June 11, 2017
Both very funny responses to my original fallacy and use of Wikipedia 🙂
My favorite Abraham Lincoln quote, which hung on the wall in my classroom the whole 10 years I taught third and fourth grade: “How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg?” “Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
That’s good, really good!