A teenage girl who is right about the standard body shape is talking with her mother about her diets, that she wants to be skinny like models and become prettier. Then, her mother asks her why she wants to be skinny because being skinny does not necessarily mean someone is pretty. The girl answers, “Because skinny girls look much prettier!” Her mother says “no, you are wrong, ” then the girl told her mother, “go to the cities and look around, pretty girls are all skinny.”
This is said to be an example of circularity and circular reasoning because the statement of the girl is
1) Skinny girls are prettier
2) Pretty girls are skinny.
Her statement above does not have a clear conclusion or specific evidence that why skinny girls are pretty or vice versa. Through whole conversation between the girl and her mother, there is no new statement explaining or prove that “why skinny girls are pretty.” That is why we chose this example.
This is a good example, Sakurako. If the mother could find a pretty girl who was not skinny or a skinny girl who was not pretty, the girl's argument would collapse. Your example sounds like a conversation that might actually happen between a mother and daughter.
ReplyDeleteI empathized this example very much. It is sure that all young girl have thoughts that to be skinny is pretty and cool. If we are skinny, we can wear cute clothes. This is admiration for girls. However, to be healthy is very important for our body. People want to see someone's beautiful smile!! I think it is important to lose weight by loosing a quantity of foods, but by taking exercise.
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