Abstract:
This quantitative research, with content analysis technique, aims to 1) to study the number of advertising encountered fallacy 2) to study the number and criterion of fallacy encountered in an advertising 3) to study the number and criterion of fallacy encountered in each product category, based on low-involvement products, which are 4 types of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), namely 1. Soft drink products 2. Packaged food products 3. Beauty and personal care products 4. Home care products, amounting to 798 advertisements that appeared from December 2019 to December 2021, and the brand selection criteria were based on market share statistical data from Euromonitor Database. According to the result, there is 66.42 percent of fallacies in product advertisements. There is an 84.58 percentage of fallacies in beauty and personal care products. Violate the sufficiency criterion fallacy, a classification in which the evidence supports the claim provides strong conclusions, is found at 45.69 percent. Following, violating the relevance criterion fallacy, considering the relation of cause and effect, is found at 31.96 percent. 25.97 percent of advertisements are used more than 1 fallacy in advertising.