EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments

EXERCISE 6–2Evaluating arguments

Identify the logical fallacy in each of the following passages.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 1 of 10: Whenever I wash my car, it rains. I have discovered a way to end all droughts—get all the people to wash their cars.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 2 of 10: Either you can learn how to design a Web site or you won’t be able to get a decent job after college.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 3 of 10: College professors tend to be sarcastic. Three of my five professors this semester make sarcastic remarks.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 4 of 10: Although Martin Bell’s book on Joe DiMaggio was well researched, I doubt that an Australian historian can contribute much to our knowledge of an American baseball player.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 5 of 10: Slacker co-workers and crazy, big-mouthed clients make our spineless managers impose ridiculous workloads on us hardworking, conscientious employees.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 6 of 10: If professional sports teams didn’t pay athletes such high salaries, we wouldn’t have so many kids breaking their legs at hockey and basketball camps.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 7 of 10: Ninety percent of the students oppose a tuition increase; therefore, the board of trustees should not pass the proposed increase.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 8 of 10: If more people would take a long, close look at businesses like Microsoft and Amazon, they could reorganize their family lives more efficiently.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 9 of 10: A mandatory ten-cent deposit on bottles and cans will eliminate litter because everyone I know will return the containers for the money rather than throw them away.

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EXERCISE 6–2 Evaluating arguments - 10 of 10: Researching what voters think during an election campaign is useless because most citizens don’t vote anyway.