Fallacy?

1. Elephants are awesome.

2. Micheal is awesome.

3. Therefore, Micheal is an elephant

asked on Thursday, Aug 26, 2021 11:25:41 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD

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1	Bo Bennett, PhD writes: Some of these questions are really basic. I suggest you simply use the tool I built at https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/search to find it. I am not sure if you are a student or not based on these questions, but this will really help you if you are sincerely interested in learning fallacies. Good luck.
	posted on Friday, Aug 27, 2021 06:21:48 AM

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TrappedPrior (RotE) 0	This logic seems to be "if elephant, then awesome. Awesome, therefore elephant." That is affirming the consequent However, please see Dr Bo's comments with regards to your contributions to the forum.
	answered on Friday, Aug 27, 2021 08:15:29 AM by TrappedPrior (RotE)
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