Gandi, The King of Fallacies

After reading Gandi’s famous speech called Kingsley Hall, I felt a close connection to this hero. He is one of the most important persons that have ever steeped in this world. His thoughts promote leadership and the want of changing the world.

Throughout his speech there is an internal happiness that start to flourish. His words inspire me and create a want of going outside and changing the world.

As a started reading the speech I couldn’t spot the fallacies that quickly as I thought I would. But I followed Emiliana Pacheco’s advise of reading it over and over again. Referring to her blog I was able to understand what I was supposed to do.

This incorrect reasoning is present in all written piece. For the piece to be interesting this reasoning have to exist.

For example in Gandhi’s speech had a lot of hidden fallacies. The ones I could identify were the following. At the beginning he starts to ask a lot of questions, “even in ordinary affairs we know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules.” Here he is making the fallacy of many questions. He is also using the fallacy of antecedent. While he is saying that people don’t know who rules, he remarks the fact that God rules people. So they actually do know who rules them. Also he is using the fallacy of tautology the proof and the conclusion is the same thing. He starts saying that people don’t know who rules them. Then he says that “He” rules (referring to God) and then he concludes his sentence saying that this power has certain rules. Here I make a connection with Heinrichs which said “ [that a] proof [will] agree with the conclusion perfectly… creating a tautology” (146). Wow! Three in one, I didn’t even think that would be possible.

Afterward he starts talking of this village called Mysore. He talks about who rules it and who people think it rules it, arriving to the conclusion that God is the one, “king of kings.” This phrase is also the fallacy of tautology since Gandhi is repeating the premise.  

As I continued to read it became easier to find this fallacies in the million of sentences. Gandhi continues to repeat the fact that people know who is ruling them, “there is a alterable law that governs everything and every being that exists of lives.”

Gandhi thankyou, now we know clearly who rules the people.

Zzzzzzz….good night.