365 Days of Philosophy

365DaysOfPhilosophy 235 - Fallacies Revision VII

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For the following, identify if there is a fallacy being used (there may not be!) — and which one it is. Answers tomorrow on Patreon.com/kyliesturgess.

  1. Well, she must be one of those man-hating women if she’s supporting the feminist group on campus. All of the feminists groups hate men. 
  2. Yes, but you cheated on his taxes, so I don’t see how your advice on taxation issues has any relevance whatsoever.
  3. If you don’t eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding and you won’t grow up to be a strong boy and without strong boys there won’t be strong men and the world will fall into ruin! 
  4. Everyone knows I was specially selected as the guest’s help, so clearly no one else is good enough for the role — they weren’t selected so they can’t be any good at all. 
  5. Just because you think it’s interesting, doesn’t mean it is — there’s plenty of people who would think it’s boring, so your opinion doesn’t matter. 
  6. She’s sometimes late for rehearsal and most of the time she’s usually late because she’s forgotten her watch or the bus is running late or there’s bad weather, which makes a number of reasons.

    7. Put your answers in the comments!

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