Explain fallacies of omission and give examples of this fallacy.

Fallacies of omission are errors or mistakes in communication due to the lack or misuse of information.

An example of Argumentum ad Speculum is " If we had taken the other way home we wouldn't have gotten stocked in a traffic jam"

Explanation:

Fallacies of omission are connected to misinformation, by having an error in the way information is presented.

There are different kinds of fallacies of omission:

* Stacking the Deck

* Argument to the Negative

* Argumentum ad Ignorantium/ Appeal to Lack of Evidence

* Argumentum ad Speculum/Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

* Complex Question

* Contradictory Premise/Logical Paradox

The example " If we had taken the other way home we wouldn't have gotten stocked in a traffic jam" gives information that can not be proved since it never happened and the person is just making assumptions based on an unreal event.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.