Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Grammatical Analogy
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- A football player is a human. Therefore, a good football player is a good human.
- Division
- Suppressed Evidence
- Equivocation
- False Dilemma
- The arguer is using the same word in two different meaning.
- Either you give me that baseball bat or you will give me that soccer ball. Since you don't want to give me that baseball bat, that means you are giving me your soccer ball.
- Begging the Question
- Complex Question
- Amphiboly
- False Dilemma
- The arguer is saying that there are only two option when infact there is more than just those two options.
- I am that good at hockey because I am just that good.
- Composition
- Equivocation
- Begging the Question
- Division
- The arguer is just restating the premise as the conclusion. No real reason was ever given.
- Does your dad know that you been doing steroids?
- Composition
- Complex Question
- Equivocation
- Suppressed Evidence
- the arguer is already implying that the person does sterois and is just expecting a yes or no answer.
- Jim must have an explosion in his house! He told me that he was having a blast at his house.
- Begging the Question
- Complex Question
- Amphiboly
- False Dilemma
- The arguer just misinterpret the word "blast" wrong.
- I know for sure that she likes butter in her hamburger! She told me that she likes butter, and hamburger so she must like both of them together.
- Composition
- Suppressed Evidence
- Equivocation
- Division
- The arguer is assumnig that she will like the two things combine jsut because she likes them individually.
- Did any one told you that your car was stolen?
- Division
- Complex Question
- Begging the Question
- Suppressed Evidence
- The arguer is implying that the car was already stolen.
- People drink water. Therefore, hydrogen and oxygen must be edible too.
- Division
- Equivocation
- Amphiboly
- False Dilemma
- The arguer is implying that people can eat oxygen and hydrogen jsut because that's what water is compose of.
- People are really nice and we should always greet them. Therefore, we should greet this man running towards us right now.
- Composition
- Suppressed Evidence
- Equivocation
- Division
- They are not giving us all the evidence. The man that is running pass the person can be anything.
- You know you should listen to me. Why? Because you just do.
- Division
- Complex Question
- Begging the Question
- Suppressed Evidence
- The arguer is not giving us a good enoguh evidence to believe to their conclusion.
