Question

Match the following statements on the left with the correct type of fallacies on the right:

I'm tired of people asking me to remove my dark glasses so that they can see my blue eyes. I wonder if I would have been as successful if I had been born with brown eyes. (Paul Newman)

Nature is like our mother. She will nurture us without expecting anything in return.

Today I have a mild head cold. Tomorrow I will probably have the flu. The next thing I know, I will have influenza and die. That will be on you if you do not let me take the afternoon off.

No one can say I hate Mexicans, since we have the best taco bowls in our Trump Tower restaurant. (Donald Trump)

The more we use solar and wind energy, the worse global warming gets. Therefore, renewable sources can be one of the causes of climate change.

How can you think that I was the perpetrator of that hit and run? I don't even know the victim's name.

A. False cause B. False analogy C. Slippery slope D. Irrelevant thesis

Answer 1

(Answer) I'm tired of people asking me to remove my dark glasses so that they can see my blue eyes. I wonder if I would have been as successful if I had been born with brown eyes. (Paul Newman) – False cause – This is when the cause of the problem or the conclusion is incorrectly defined because of a particular variable. Here Newman assumes that his fame was due to his blue eyes. Therefore

Nature is like our mother. She will nurture us without expecting anything in return. – False analogy. This is when one assumes that just because two things are similar in one respect, it might mean that they are similar in another respect.

Today I have a mild head cold. Tomorrow I will probably have the flu. The next thing I know, I will have influenza and die. That will be on you if you do not let me take the afternoon off. – Slippery slope fallacy. This is when different variables or premises are used in order to form conclusions that are significantly graver than the variables.

No one can say I hate Mexicans, since we have the best taco bowls in our Trump Tower restaurant. (Donald Trump) – Irrelevant Thesis. This is when a person misses the point of the argument by providing reasoning that may not be logically sound but, also fails to address the issue in question.

The more we use solar and wind energy, the worse global warming gets. Therefore, renewable sources can be one of the causes of climate change. – False cause fallacy. This is when the cause of the problem or the conclusion is incorrectly defined because of a particular variable. Here the use of clean energy and global warming started around the same time because clean energy was used to placate global warming. Therefore, a false cause fallacy assumes that one is the cause of the other when, in fact, one is the solution of the other.

How can you think that I was the perpetrator of that hit and run? I don't even know the victim's name. – Irrelevant Thesis. This is when a person misses the point of the argument by providing reasoning that may not be logically sound but, also fails to address the issue in question.