Content Fallacies

There are many bad arguments out there in which they may contain a fallacy or fallacies.
A fallacy is when in an argument the statement is false. Getting into “content fallacies” there are different fallacies in claims that can lead to bad arguments. In accordance to our text by Epstein, one of the fallacies that I often see is the “bad appeal to common belief (or practice)” (201). This premise of this fallacy is the belief if everyone believes the statement, then it must be true, because not everyone could be wrong.

A real life example, would be how a lot of people believe that if you file your tax return on extension (past the April 15th due date), they will not be audited. This is a fallacy because people do get audited. Many years ago, however it was the common belief that if an individual files their return on extension, they were less likely to be audited. However, due to sophisticated computer systems and electronic filing, this is no longer true however many people still believe it is true