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Hi. So you had done my fallacies paper before but my teacher said it was all wrong. You picked fallacies from websites that had already identified which fallacy it is. My teacher wants me to pick different news articles and identify what kind of fallacy it is on my own. Is there any way you can just find different fallacies and write a short analysis on them please. I failed the last assignment.
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Logical Fallacies
1. Marco Rubio’s attack to Trump
Example
In February 2016, Marco Rubio accused Trump of employing foreigners in his cloth company.
The remarks which were made during a public debate aimed at refusing Trump’s claims of
leadership (Oppenheim 1). Marco Rubio deviated from the debate subject to attack Trump
personally for what was an old lawsuit.
Type of fallacy
This fallacy is an ad hominem fallacy. The ad hominem fallacy is the deviation from the course
of argument to attack the arguer in an unconnected debate.
Analysis
The argument presented in the news article directly attacks Trump for his actions that he
undertook 30 years ago. Marco Rubio’s argument is directed towards Trump and not the
argument itself. The argument, at the moment, was whether Trump would be a good leader if
given the chance to run for president under the Republican banner. However, in an unrelated
argument, Marco pulled out a statistical argument against Trump.
2. Mount Kinabalu
Example
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A group of 10 European tourists who were visiting Mount Kinabalu stripped naked for photos;
an action which showed great indecency according to the local Sabahan believers. The mountain
which was regarded holy might have led to an earthquake that claimed dozens of livesl. That
way, the local minister of tourism ordered that the tourists be detained for punishment since they
led to the violent eruption in this village of Ma...
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