Two fallacies exposed and explained
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I don't know what colleges are teaching these days! I have just received a letter of application from a young man who graduated from the state university last June. It was a wretched letter--badly written, with elementary errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The state university does not deserve the tax support that it is getting.
All right-thinking people will support the Board of Education's decision to destroy novels in the school libraries that are offensive to the moral standards of the community. If there were an epidemic of typhoid, the health authorities would be expected to do everything in their power to wipe it out. Pornography is worse than typhoid, since it corrupts the minds and morals of the young, not just their bodies. The school board is to be applauded for their prompt action in wiping out this moral disease.
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Explicates the fallacious reasoning involved in two short passages. Shows why/how the reasoning of each passage constitutes a fallacy and identifies the fallacies involved by name.
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The first one is a hasty generalization: the person making this argument generalizes from his/her experience with one ...
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