Something I found interesting this week’s reading was common mistakes in evaluating premises. More Specifically, bad appeals to authority and mistaking a person for the claim. Epstein states that bad a s a mistake to accept a claim as a true solely because a lot of other people believe it. Mistaking the person for the claim as a mistake to reject a claim solely because of who said it. An example of bad appeal to common belief would be a Bowflex commercial. The Commercial advertises their Bowflex and claims that the Bowflex will make you stronger and bigger, you will also see your results much faster if you use this product. This is example. They show many people who claim to have used this product and said that it worked well. The problem is there is no evidence to show that those people used that product. Those people could have already been big before they appeared on the commercial. People will buy this product thinking that they will have the same, but they don’t really know if the product worked for the people in the commercial.
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