What fallacy is visible in this question?
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Original Question
Will they stop selling cigarettes due to the corona virus? was asked by a person on Quora.
My partial answer was "Who's 'they'"?
It's a commonplace form to ask about some anonymous "they", so we can understand what they really mean, but I argue it continues a common form of poor reasoning.
For simplicity, the "they" of the question is not the "they" the questioner means, since he is not asking if the tobacconist is going to stop and he's implying an Appeal to Authority , an Anonymous Authority at that, and dual meaning for "they" adds Ambiguity Fallacy
Answers
3"they" Might be used in an ambiguous way, but since there was no conclusion or claim based off the ambiguous term I don't think it would be a fallacy.
There's no argument, so no real "fallacy".
Also, it's not totally ambiguous - this person could be referring to the tobacco companies, and by extension, the tobacconists. It's not some mysterious entity, e.g. "they don't want me to be successful," or "they say that..."
While I agree that "they" is ambiguous and anonymous, I don't see it as fallacious in this context. It is not an argument, it is not even a question with an implied argument; it is just a question. I am not sure how the questioner would be demonstrating flawed reasoning here.
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