Question

Which are examples of the following fallacies:

Begging the Question, Hasty Generalization. False Analogy, Appeal to Authority, Slippery Slope, False Cause – Post HOC, Ad Hominem, Tu Quoque, Red Herring, or Strawman

1. During a debate, Candidate A responds to Candidate B’s questions about his fundraising: “My opponent raises questions about the legality of my previous fundraising activities. But let’s get past this mudslinging and look at what really matters: who’s most qualified to be President? I tell you that I have the background and qualifications, I’m the man. I have the experience and the backbone to get the job done.”

2. You know, Tim, it’s interesting that you’re arguing for health care reform. Don’t you as a physician stand to gain a lot economically if the reform is enacted?

3. I don’t believe in global warming. It’s a myth. I mean just look at this past summer (2010), one of the coolest in the last fifty years.

4. Children are like dogs. They need to be strongly disciplined and housebroken.

5. From newspaper article: When former Senator Daschle argued for a decrease in the national defense budget by suggesting that billions can be saved by cutting out waste and mismanagement, Senator Trent Lott responded by saying, “My opponent wants to weaken our defense posture around the world by cutting our defense spending. A cut could only mean reduction of our forces in strategic defense positions in Europe and Asia. I say that America cannot become a 2^nd rate military power and still keep her commitments abroad.”

6. Your argument against rent control holds no water at all. You yourself own several apartment buildings, don’t you?

7. Whenever legislators have the power to raise taxes, they will always find problems that seem to require solutions that do just that, that is, raise taxes. This is an axiom, the proof of which is that the power to tax always generates the perception on the part of those who have that power that there exists various ills the remedy for which can only lie in increased governmental spending and hence higher taxes.

Answer 1

1. This is an example of the appeal to authority fallacy.

2. This is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

3. This is an example of the hasty generalisation fallacy.

4. This is an example of the false analogy fallacy.

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