Fallacies 2
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| show | At least 70% of all Americans support restrictions on access to abortions, so it is acceptable to pass those laws.
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| show | Tiger Woods selling Buick automobiles, and Jessica Simpson selling Pro Active
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| show | Marijuana grows naturally. Prohibiting the harvesting and utilization of any of mother Earth's natural resources is simply wrong.
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| show | "I think there is great merit in making the requirements stricter for the graduate students. I recommend that you support it, too. After all, we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected."
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| Ad Hominem | show 🗑
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| show | "I should receive an 'A' in this class. After all, if I don't get an 'A' I won't get the fellowship that I want."
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| False Cause | show 🗑
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| show | "We have to stop the tuition increase! The next thing you know, they'll be charging $40,000 a semester"
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| show | If you don't brush your teeth, you could get cavities.
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| show | I took antibiotics yesterday. I've been feeling sick today. The antibiotics have made me feel sick.
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| Legitimate | show 🗑
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| show | The US Surgeon General uses a PC. Therefore, PCs are better than Macs.
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| show | Political life must lead to excessive drinking. In the last six months, the paper has written about five members of Congress who have either confessed to alcoholism or have been arrested on DUI charges.
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| show | Donna will surely get a good grade in physics; she earned an A in her biology class.
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| Slippery Slope | show 🗑
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| False Dilemma | show 🗑
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| show | The upsurge in crime on Sundays is the result of the reduced rate of church attendance in recent years.
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| show | You'll enjoy your Volvo; foreign cars never break down.
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| show | Either we improve the city's street lighting, or we will fail to reduce crime.
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| Faulty Analogy | show 🗑
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| False Dilemma | show 🗑
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| Slippery Slope | show 🗑
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| False Cause | show 🗑
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| show | The senator is an honest woman; she loves her children and gives to charities.
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| Strawman | show 🗑
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| show | Those crazy liberals at the ACLU just want all criminals to go free.
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| Bandwagon | show 🗑
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| Red Herring | show 🗑
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| show | We shouldn't listen to Colman McCarthy's argument against liquor ads in college newspapers because he obviously thinks young people are ignorant and need guidance in everything.
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| Bandwagon | show 🗑
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| Guilt by Association | show 🗑
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| show | My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and mine is too. So philosophy classes must be tough for some students.
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| Appeal to Pity | show 🗑
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| Red Herring | show 🗑
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| Ad Hominem | show 🗑
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| Begging the Question | show 🗑
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| Guilt by Association | show 🗑
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| show | The Nazi regime developed the Volkswagen Beetle. Therefore, you should not buy a VW Beetle because of who started it.
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| show | The Catholic church's long history demonstrates that this doctrine is true.
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| Appeal to Pity | show 🗑
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| show | Your family is weird. That means that you are weird, too.
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| show | "No one objects to a physician looking up a difficult case in medical books. Why, then, shouldn't students taking a difficult examination be permitted to use their textbooks?"
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| show | The Romans kept slaves. Therefore, we can keep slaves too.
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| show | Bob: "Smoking and alcoholism are well-known risk factors for cancer." Alice: "But you yourself smoke and drink a lot! You're wrong!"
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| show | Your evidence of racism in the Church of the Royal Feline just shows that you don't clearly understand our beliefs. Your evidence is wrong, and the Church of the Royal Feline is flawless. To suggest otherwise is evil.
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| Appeal to Ignorance | show 🗑
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| show | She hasn't said she doesn't like you, right? So she's probably interested. Call her up.
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| show | Teacher: Believe me, this is the best school.
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| show | Secretary of State Dean Acheson is too soft on communism, as you can see by his inviting so many fuzzy-headed liberals to his White House cocktail parties.
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| Begging the Question | show 🗑
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| Tu Quoque | show 🗑
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| show | You can't prove that there aren't Martians living in caves under the surface of Mars, so it is reasonable for me to believe there are.
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| show | "A candidate citing the First Amendment, allows for an adult-only movie theater. An opponent claims the candidate supports pornography."
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| Begging the Question | show 🗑
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| show | If you don't vote for this candidate, you must be a communist.
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| Slippery Slope | show 🗑
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| show | You can't wear a blush wedding dress. Everyone knows that wedding dresses are have always been white.
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| Red Herring | show 🗑
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| Faulty Analogy | show 🗑
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| show | Offshore oil exploration is safe in the Canadian Artic because precautions are taken to prevent accidents. To avoid catastrophic spills, Canada requires oil companies to be ready to drill relief wells within months of starting exploration.
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| Tu Quoque | show 🗑
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| show | Drs. Hagedorn and Smith (2003) noted that the link between maternal caffeine consumption and irritability of newborns in rats is "quite strong"
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| show | Let's fix the tear in the tent flap now while it's small. Otherwise, it will just keep getting larger and let rain in.
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