Identify the Fallacies for each argument, explain why.
Choices are: hasty generalization, begging the question, black and white (false dilemma), strawperson, false analogy, ad hominem, appeal to authority, argument from ignorance, non sequitur, red herring, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, and slippery slope.
a). It is important for the US government to help people find employment. When people don’t have jobs, unemployment results.
b). I know a lot of people who didn’t want to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump during the 2016 election. I responded, “but what else can you do since you have to choose one of them?”
a. Appeal to authority
Explanation: Here the argument does not have any logical base. But the argument demands the reply from the authority.
b. Straw person argument.
Explanation:Here the voters oppose both the contestant candidates. They reject both without saying the reasons of rejection.
Identify the Fallacies for each argument, explain why. Choices are: hasty generalization, begging the question, black...
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