Jill says, "Hey Jack! You should stop eating so many cookies! Remember your diabetes!" And Jack...

Jill says, "Hey Jack! You should stop eating so many cookies! Remember your diabetes!" And Jack responds, "Whatever, Jill. Like I should listen to you! You have eaten more than I have!"

Is it a:

Poisoning the Well

Line Drawing Fallacy

Inconsistency Ad Hominem

Slippery Slope Fallacy

No Fallacy

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Expert Solution

The correct answer is option c:Inconsistency Ad Hominem

Explanation : Inconsistency Ad Hominem is a type of logical fallacy characterised by an effort to rebute and argument by making a personal attack that isn't logical to the argument in an attempt to win it. In the above example after Jill asked Jack to not eat too many cookies because he has diabetes Jack tells him why should he listen to him as he has eaten more than him. Here Jack is making an illogical argument which is also a personal attack. That is characteristic of Ad Hominem fallacy. Poisoning the well is a similar logical fallacy but generally the third person is atacked in this type of fallacy. It is done in order to ridicule everything that person is about to say. This wasn't the case here. Line drawing fallacy is based on paradoxes of heaps which again isn't applicable here while slippery slope fallacy is a logical fallacy where one minor event leads to a significant amount of negative effect which is often exaggerated.

Hayet Jeridi answered 1 year ago

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