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Fallacy Practice – Chapter 10

 

 

1. _______________________________ Professor Smith is the best teacher I have ever had, and Professor Jones is his best friend so I am sure that Professor Jones is an excellent teacher as well.

2. _______________________________ Professor Smith is the worst teacher I have ever had, and Professor Jones is his best friend so I am sure that Professor Jones is also a poor teacher.

3.________________________________ I am sure that tobacco isn't addictive. After all, the CEO's of tobacco companies say that it is not.

4. ________________________________ I am sure that tobacco isn't addictive. After all, five of my philosophy teachers have said that is not.

5. ________________________________ I am sure that Plato is a well respected philosophers. Five of my philosophy teachers have said that he was.

6. ________________________________ I am sure that tobacco isn't addictive. After all, Hitler claimed that it was addictive, and Hitler was one of the most evil men who __ever lived. He was guilty of genocide. He was guilty of military aggression. He was responsible for more deaths than other single person.

7. ________________________________ I am sure that smoking tobacco is a fine practice. After all, generation after generation of Americans, Chinese, and Brazilians have smoked tobacco.

8. _______________________________ Your argument that cigarettes should be banned is ludicrous. After all, your father is a tobacco farmer.

  1. ________________________________ Marijuana should be legalized. Tobacco is legal, and it is just as bad.

  2. ________________________________ Jill: You were flirting with Jane at the party.

Jack: You are accusing me of flirting with every woman at the party, but Ashley, Susan, and Megan were at the party, and I didn’t even speak with any of them.