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Identifying logical fallacies

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What fallacy is represented below?

If Bruce Willis drinks Seagram's wine cooler, it must be good.

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Explains the logical fallacy involved in the following statement:

"If Bruce Willis drinks Seagram's wine cooler, it must be good."

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This is an appeal to popularity and/or an appeal to authority. Bruce Willis may be an expert in acting, but that doesn't make him an expert in taste or in judging what drinks are good. Appeals to authority often go wrong because the supposed authority ...

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