Exercise 3.2 Part I

1.  Appeal to Pity

2. Argument against the person, circumstantial

3. Red herring

4. Accident

5. Appeal to the people, indirect variety

6. Argument against the person, abusive

7. Appeal to force

8. Straw man

9. Missing the point

10. Tu quoque (you too)

11. No fallacy

12. Appeal to the people, direct variety

13. Red herring

14. Appeal to pity

15. Accident

16. Argument against the person, circumstantial

17. Argument against the person, abusive

18. No fallacy

19. Straw man

20. Appeal to force

21. Red herring

22. Appeal to the people, indirect variety

23. No fallacy (Jones has presented no argument.)

24. Tu quoque

25. Missing the point

Part I.

Exercise 3.3: Part I

1. Hasty generalization

2. Weak analogy

3. Appeal to unqualified authority

4. Slippery slope

5. No fallacy

6. False cause

7. Appeal to ignorance

8. No fallacy

9. Hasty generalization (converse accident)

10. Appeal to unqualified authority. (This was a TV ad; recall that Ray Charles is blind.)

11.No fallacy

12. Slippery slope

13. Weak analogy

14. Appeal to ignorance

15. False cause

Part III

I. Hasty generalization

2. Missing the point

3. No fallacy

4. Argument against the person, circumstantial

5. Accident

6. No fallacy

7. False cause (gambler's fallacy)

8. Appeal to force

9. Appeal to the people, indirect variety

10. Straw man

11. Weak analogy

12. No fallacy

13. Red herring

14. Argument against the person, abusive

15. No fallacy

16. Missing the point

17. Appeal to unqualified authority. (Would the answer be the same if Bush's statement were a mere slip of the tongue?)

18. Missing the point

19. Weak analogy

20. Argument against the person, circumstantial

21. Appeal to pity

22. No fallacy

23. Tu quoque

24. Red herring

25. Appeal to ignorance

26. Accident

27. No fallacy? Weak analogy?

28. False cause

29. Appeal to unqualified authority

30. Slippery Slope

Part I.

1. False dichotomy

2. Composition

3. Equivocation (on "good")

4. Amphiboly

5. Complex question

6. Division

7. Begging the question

8. No fallacy

9. Suppressed evidence (the hidden conditions for getting a free trip prevent most people

from ever actually receiving one.)

10. Equivocation (on "ring")

11. Complex question

12. Division

13. Composition

14. No fallacy

15.  Amphiboly

16. Suppressed evidence (The arguer ignores the time value of money. In today's dollars, the $90,000 is worth several times that figure, and, given that the pay-back will be spread out over several years, the present value of the $200,000 is significantly less than that figure.)

17. False dichotomy

18. No fallacy

19. Division

20. Begging the question

21. Composition

22. Complex question

23. Amphiboly

24. Equivocation

25. Begging the question

Part III.

1. Argument against the person, circumstantial

2. Amphiboly

3. Appeal to unqualified authority

4. Equivocation

5. Composition

6. Appeal to the people

7. Begging the question

8. Composition

9. Appeal to ignorance

10. Division

11. Weak analogy

12. Hasty generalization (converse accident)

13. False cause (oversimplified cause)

14. Red herring

15. Complex question

16. Appeal to unqualified authority

17. Argument against the person, abusive and circumstantial

18. Appeal to pity

19. Composition

20. False dichotomy

21. Division

22. Weak analogy

23. Equivocation

24. No fallacy

25. Straw man

26. Amphiboly

27. Begging the question

28. Accident

29. Appeal to force

30. Suppressed evidence

31. Red herring

32. Tu quoque

33. Slippery slope

34. Amphiboly

35. Begging the question

36. Appeal to unqualified authority

37. False cause (gambler's fallacy)

38. Weak analogy

39. Equivocation

40. Begging the question

41. Division

42. No fallacy

43. Missing the point or suppressed evidence.

44. False dichotomy

45. Appeal to ignorance

46. Hasty generalization

47. Missing the point

48. False cause

49. Composition

50. Complex question