LOGICAL FALLACIES

PRESENTED BY:
Mehreen Raza
(06-419)
Quratulain Riaz
(06-146)
 Attacking the Motive
This fallacy occurs when an arguer
Criticizes a person's motivation for
offering a particular argument or
claim, rather than examining the
worth of the argument or claim itself.
Attacking the Motive follows the
pattern:
1. X is biased or has questionable
motives.
2. X's argument or claim should be
 EXAMPLE.1
• Kamal claims that LUMS is the best
Business school in Pakistan. But why
should we listen to him? Being a
LUMS student, of course he would
say that!
 EXAMPLE.2
• The Judges who were removed for
not taking the second PCO oath are
agitating to reinstall the deposed
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudry. But
why should we listen to the judges?
Ofcourse they would say that
because when he is reinstated, he
would reinstate them as well.
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