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Answers - Fallacy Identification 1

1. This is a complex question which presupposes that the person addressed has cheated in the past.
   
   
2. Equivocation is present, because two different senses of "find" and "found" are used.
   
   
3. "50% stronger" is an ambiguous comparison. "Up to eight hours of relief" are weasel words, because if the aspirin provided one minute of relief, the claim would be true.
   
   
4. "Extended viewing fee" is a euphemism for late fee.
   
   
5. This sentence contains an amphiboly. The lecture probably isn’t about people who have had safe sex in the biology lab.
   
   
6. This is innuendo. The statements imply that Jim was lying, but this claim is not made directly.
   
   
7. This is a phantom distinction since deserting his wife and children and moving on to the new relationship are descriptions of the same action.
   
   
8. There is a complex question that presupposes that the person addressed stole the cookies. The other questions are rhetorical questions that do not by themselves support a conclusion.

Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Community College
Last Up-dated: November 15, 2000