blog 2

2. I will die.
     Therefore, I smoked cigarettes.

3. a: I smoke cigarette
    b: I will die
    x: me

4. This argument is valid but not true

5. If I smoke cigarettes, then I will die.

6.

P	Q	P--->Q
T	T	T
T	F	F
F	T	T
F	F	F

this argument is not a tautology because it does not always prove to be true and does not make sense in real life as a conditional statement because you will not die immediately solely from smoking cigarettes. You can die, however, from getting "hooked" and possibly causing other fatal conditions like lung cancer.

7. The source isn't clear- I found this ad on google images but the argument that smoking can lead to death is a hot topic and true argument. The only "hidden agenda" in this ad is to get people to stop smoking because the fish gets "hooked", which is how fish die. It does not conflict with other things I know but the ad is definitely bias towards the fact that smoking causes death. Although getting hooked on cigarettes can lead to other diseases that could kill you, smoking itself does not actually kill you.

8. Yes I think this argument appeals to emotion, which is one of the common fallacies. It makes you emotional enough to the point that if you love your body, you will not smoke. People do not want to die and so they will try to stay away from things that are bad for them.

9. This assignment helped me to think more critically about media influence because the ad that I analyzed did not prove to be true. This ad is showing a very extreme side to smoking cigarettes (a fish getting hooked and dying because of it) in order to scare people away from it so much that they will never try it. Although that is the point of the ad, we should not accept everything we see in media today exactly as we see it because it is a radical side of the argument, trying to prove a point.