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Review Exercise IIIa: Mixed Fallacies
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| Identify the fallacy that occurs in each passage. These will be fallacies from various categories. |
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| 1. Unless you have struggled to get by using a language other than your own, you are in no position to decide that having an "official" language serves the public interest. | ||
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| 2. It is easy to imagine how personal information posted over the Internet could fall into the wrong hands. Clearly buying and selling of products on the Internet should be banned completely. | ||
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| 3. Serve Underwood Caviar. Let everyone see how sophisticated you are. | ||
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| 4. I used to be a nerd with pimples. Then I started drinking Spoke...and I'm still a nerd with pimples; but at least I'm not a thirsty nerd with pimples. | ||
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| 5. Only a few people survived the crash, but I was one of them. God must have plans for me. | ||
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| 6. Our beer is made following a family recipe that our ancestors brought over from the old country. | ||
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| 7. Pollution has become an emotional issue, but realistically we will have to come to accept pollution as a fact of life. It is simply not economically feasible to demand that factories install pollution control devices. | ||
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| 8. Why is there life on Earth, but no life on Mars? I guess some things just can't be explained. | ||
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| 9. The latest in engineering technology! | ||
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| 10. I still think abortion is wrong, no matter what you say. | ||
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| 11. The Iraqi people will welcome us with parades and flowers. You can take my word for it. | ||
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| 12. Airplanes are an abomination! If God had intended man to fly, He would have given him wings. | ||
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| 13. Those who advocate making English the "official" language of the state are surely not wrong to be proud of their language, and if their view is provincial, it is at least motivated by noble sentiments. | ||
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| 14. How can you be in favor of making English the official language of the state? Your own ancestors spoke no English when they first came here. | ||
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| 15. You think my novel is rambling and unfocused? I think it is sweeping and wide-ranging. | ||
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