PHL 214 Lecture Notes - Trent Reznor, Uwo Gazette, Harry Browne
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Identify the fallacies (if any) in the following sentences. Explain your answers: horoscopes do predict the future. It is immoral to eat meat because it is unethical to use animals for food: the existence of ghosts has never been disproved. Therefore ghosts do exist: a student group has formed to lobby for more vegetarian choices in the college cafeteria. This group will never succeed because they"ll never get other students to become vegans: the sports section of the globe and mail is terrible. Those reporters don"t know what they"re talking about. The statistics are out of date and they don"t even cover major events. I am either the best or the worst tennis player: you really shouldn"t eat that chip. You will just want another and another, and you will end up eating the whole bag. Then you will want a bag every day. Your arteries will clog, and you will have a heart attack within months.
