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Identify the fallacies of insufficient evidence in the following arguments. If no fallacy is committed, write “no fallacy.
9. Either you support preferential treatment for disadvantaged minorities in university admissions, or you’re a racist. But surely, you’re not a racist. Therefore, you support preferential treatment for disadvantaged minorities in university admissions.
11. Students have asked that we extend residence hall visitation hours by one hour on Friday and Saturday nights. This request will have to be denied. If we give students an extra visitation hour on weekends, next they’ll be asking us to allow their boyfriends and girlfriends to stay over all night. Eventually, we’ll have students shacking up in every room.
13. A Saint Bernard is large, cuddly, furry, and makes a great house pet. A baby grizzly bear is also large, cuddly, and furry. Therefore, a baby grizzly bear would make a great house pet, too. 15. You’re not seriously thinking of voting for that bum, are you? Why don’t you wake up and smell the coffee?
9. Either you support preferential treatment for disadvantaged minorities in university admissions, or you’re a racist. But surely, you’re not a racist. Therefore, you support preferential treatment for disadvantaged minorities in university admissions.
==> False alternatives fallacy or False dilemma fallacy
11. Students have asked that we extend residence hall visitation hours by one hour on Friday and Saturday nights. This request will have to be denied. If we give students an extra visitation hour on weekends, next they’ll be asking us to allow their boyfriends and girlfriends to stay over all night. Eventually, we’ll have students shacking up in every room.
==> Slippery Slope fallacy
13. A Saint Bernard is large, cuddly, furry, and makes a great house pet. A baby grizzly bear is also large, cuddly, and furry. Therefore, a baby grizzly bear would make a great house pet, too.
==> Weak analogy fallacy
15. You’re not seriously thinking of voting for that bum, are you? Why don’t you wake up and smell the coffee?
==> Loaded question fallacy
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