Name: M. Taha Saeed & Wardah Rasheed Date: 18th Feb 2025 Writing and Communication Assignment: Logical Fallacies 1. Education is the only way to combat unemployment. Fallacy: Either OR Explanation: 2. Clinton's infidelity to his wife invalidates his Mideast peace policy. Fallacy: Ad Hominem Explanation: 3. Drink Vichy water; Paris Hilton does. Fallacy: False Authority Explanation: 4. Defending his rationale for pursuing the Vietnam War, president Lyndon Johnson said, "We learned from Hitler at Munich that success only feeds the appetite of aggression." Fallacy: False Analogy Explanation: 5. Jim MacPherson should be treasurer; as everyone knows, the Scots are naturally thrifty. Fallacy: Hasty Generalization Explanation: 6. Mike: It is morally wrong to cheat on your spouse, why on earth would you have done that? Ken: But what is morality exactly? Mike: It’s a code of conduct shared by cultures. Ken: But who creates this code?... Fallacy: Red Herring Explanation: 7. The Pope told me that priests could turn bread and wine into Jesus’ body and blood. The Pope is not a liar. Therefore, priests really can do this. Fallacy: False authority Explanation: 8. My opponent suggests that lowering taxes will be a good idea -- this is coming from a woman who eats a pint of Ben and Jerry’s each night! Fallacy: Ad Hominem Explanation: 9. Tim: Boss, you heard my side of the story why I think Bill should be fired and not me. Now, I am sure Bill is going to come to you with his side of the story, but please keep in mind that we have two witnesses to the event who both agree that Bill was the one who told the client that she had ugly children. Fallacy: Poison the well Explanation: 10. We must carefully identify these promoters of hatred so that they can be removed from positions in the public services. Fallacy: Dogmatism Explanation: 11. Sky-diving is dangerous because it is characterized by extreme risks. Fallacy: Circular Reasoning Explanation: 12. Citizens must choose between supporting gun control and supporting murder. Fallacy: Either OR Explanation: 13. Loading students with hours of homework is pointless when the world is about to be destroyed by the greenhouse effect. Fallacy: Slippery Slope Explanation: 14. Every Siamese cat I’ve met has been temperamental and so they all are. Fallacy: Hasty Generalization Explanation: 15. College students pay for their classes much like customers pay for a product. Obviously, one of the first goals of a company is to make a product that pleases the customers. Thus, one of the first goals of a professor should be to run a class that pleases the students. Fallacy: False Analogy Explanation: 16. How could you doubt that angels exist? A recent poll has shown that 75% of Americans believe in angels. Fallacy: Bandwagon Explanation: 17. Apparently, our honourable governor would rather see unemployed people out on the street than receiving state aid. But can anyone believe that this is a reasonable position? Does increasing the homeless population really make a society better off? Fallacy: Straw Man Explanation: 18. And if that weren’t enough, artists put something of themselves in their artwork. Just think of how terrible those students must have felt to have their artwork rejected like that. It must have been like having a part of themselves rejected, too! Just spat upon, called immoral and rejected! How would you like that? Fallacy: Appeal to pity Explanation: 19. How can you believe that some people have had religious experiences of God? Just think of all the atrocities that have been committed thanks to such alleged contact with God! Wars have been waged, people have been tortured and killed, cultures have been eradicated, all because someone thought that God appeared or spoke to him! Fallacy: Part of the whole Explanation: 20. I believe that God exists. After all, you can’t prove that he doesn’t.” Fallacy: Appeal to ignorance Explanation:
