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  • Dec 10, 2008, 08:00 AM
    pleasehelp2
    I do not understand
    I had this assignment for homework in an online class, I did it, and still do not understand what is wrong. I had to re do my assignment and these are the answers I came up with.

    Identify any examples of fallacies in the following passages. Tell why you

    Think these are fallacies, and identify which category they belong in, if they

    Fit any category we’ve described.

    2. Ad hominem

    Showing through in her July 15 letter. This time she expresses her abhorrence

    Of abortion. But how we see only what we choose to see! I wonder

    If any of the anti-abortionists have considered the widespread use of

    Fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if they have,

    Why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs

    Frequently results in multiple births, which leads to the death of one

    Of the infants, often after an agonizing struggle for survival. According

    To the rules of the pro-lifers, isn’t this murder?”

    Letter to the editor: “Andrea Keene’s selective morality is once again
    — North-State Record

    3. Poisoning the well

    be a widow.” The letter writer, a divorcée, complained about widows

    Who said they had a hard time coping. Far better, she wrote, to be a

    Widow than to be a divorcée, who are all “rejects” who have been “publicly

    dumped” and are avoided “like they have leprosy.” Abby recognized

    The pseudoreasoning for what it was, though she did not call it by our

    Name. What is our name for it?

    In one of her columns, Abigail Van Buren printed the letter of “I’d rather
    5. hasty generalizing

    closing North Park Drive for the sake of a few joggers and bicyclists.

    These so-called fitness enthusiasts would evidently have us give up to

    them for their own private use every last square inch of Walnut Grove.

    Then anytime anyone wanted a picnic, he would have to park at the

    edge of the park and carry everything in—ice chests, chairs, maybe even

    grandma. I certainly hope the Commission keeps the entire park open

    for everyone to use.”

    Letter to the editor: “Once again the Park Commission is considering
    6. Ad hominem

    on federal property near the White House, of a set of plastic figurines representing

    a devout Jewish family in ancient Judaea. The protestors would

    of course deny that they are driven by any anti-Semitic motivation. Still,

    we wonder: Would they raise the same objections (of unconstitutionality,

    etc.) if the scene depicted a modern, secularized Gentile family?”

    “Some Christian—and other—groups are protesting against the placing,
    — National Review

    ability to raise additional sources of revenue, not only to meet the

    demands of growth but also to maintain existing levels of service. For

    without these sources those demands will not be met, and it will be impossible

    to maintain services even at present levels.”

    8. post hoc
    From a letter to the editor: “The counties of Michigan clearly need the

    Gave a radio interview (broadcast on National Public Radio) in which he

    Said that the Church was against the use of condoms. Even though the

    Rate of AIDS infection in Puerto Rico is much higher than on the U.S.

    Mainland, the spokesman said that the Church could not support the use

    Of condoms because they are not absolutely reliable in preventing the

    Spread of the disease. “If you could prove that condoms were absolutely

    dependable in preventing a person from contracting AIDS, then the

    Church could support their use.”
  • Dec 15, 2008, 09:39 AM
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