W.+Ferguson



==__Presentation__ __on parallelism __==

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__**Fallacy Project **__

**Poisoning** ** the well fallacy of Ethos **  poisoning the well is basically disagreeing and ready to attack the other persons side.the people that poison the well are always negative even before the topic is brought up.

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 In the beginning of this video it started off saying, "this is going to be an horrible, boring year!" which in this case is a good example because most of the time when people use positioning the well they say negative things before anything is even said about the topic. Poisoning the well is to ridicule the speaker or argument before it is mentioned. Example B used in this video showed that bill was already calling his teacher a jerk before his class even started. Poisoning the well gives the audience a bad impression of the topic before the speaker or argument is even started.

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This video is a good example of poisoning the well, sometimes people do not always realize that they are poisoning the well. Many people do not even know what poisoning the well is so they do not recognize if they are doing it or not. In this video for an example one of the puppets had to say " you know you're poisoning the well". Poisoning the well can give off a bad vibe about the topic before it is even started. when people use poisoning the well on a topic is makes some people not feel comfortable with the topic.