Week 4 Question 3

I have always heard about fallacies throughout literature, but never really knew exactly what they were or what problems they cause, but now reading Chapter 11 in Epstein I understand more.
A fallacy is a a bad argument of one of the types that have been agreed to be typically unrepairable. Or in other words a fallacy is something in literature that breaks the rules that must be followed throughout literature, that cannot usually be fixed. There are three categories of fallacies, which are structural fallacies (bad arguments due to their form), content fallacies (bad arguments due to their need for repairing of false dubious premises), and the Principle of Rational Discussion ( bad arguments due to irrational discussion or misleading discussion).
Within each category contains multiple, specific fallacies. Some structural fallacies include: arguing backwards with no, affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, etc. Some content fallacies include: drawing the line, false dilemma, slippery slope, mistaking the person for the argument, etc. Some fallacies that violate the Principle of Rational Discussion include: begging the question,  strawman, relevance, etc.