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athena

What types of fallacies are these?

1. amanda, i saw you having breakfast with senator durbin. incidentally, how long have you two been having an affair?

2. president obama wants young people not to use drugs. the president has no right to tell us we cant use drugs. when he was at harvard he used marijuana

3.It is ridiculous to hear a man from Mexico complaining about killings by the police in the usa. Mexico has many more cases of police killing than the usa.

4.Obviously Joe will make a great and capable collegue. He is an orphan and he lost the use of both his legs since he was 5.

5. Rudolf Hess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp confessed to exterminated one millon people in the gas chambers. We can only conclude Hess was either insane or evil.

6.You argue that I should cut down on my drinking. But you drink much more heavily than i. You havent been sober in a year.

7. a mouse is an animal. I follows that a big mouse is a big animal
asked on Monday, Dec 09, 2019 09:38:59 PM by athena

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Bo Bennett, PhD writes:
Sorry, this looks like a homework question. Use the search fallacies tool and as a research tool.
posted on Monday, Feb 10, 2020 05:32:52 PM

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