Question

Name the Fallacy: "Gatorade—scientifically formulated with nutrients that taste best when you need them most."

Name the fallacy: "We have evidence that Manafort and a few Russians conspired to throw the 2016 Presidential election. We must conclude that the Russians threw the 2016 Presidential election."

Name the Fallacy: "We can get permits to carry loaded guns in public, but we can’t smoke in the subway. That’s not logical."

Answer 1

(Answer) (1) False dilemma or false dichotomy fallacy – This is a fallacy that states that the variables used to arrive at a particular conclusion are erroneous. This means that from the available options for variables, the wrong or unrelated ones have been picked to prove a particular point. Scientifically formulated nutrients and culinary elements like “taste” do not really go together. Furthermore, the premise that it tastes best only when it is needed is illogical.

(2) Slippery Slope – Manafort colluding with the Russians is a small variable that has been used to arrive at a major conclusion that the Russians threw the 2016 elections. This is a slippery slope fallacy because small elements of information have been used to arrive at vast conclusions. Here the premises are inadequate for arriving at conclusions of such magnitude.

(3) Equivocation fallacy – This is when one variable is equivocated with another to cause confusion or to make an implication. Here, the speaker is trying to equivocate two unrelated variables of guns and cigarettes. The implication is that guns are worse than cigarettes but guns are allowed and cigarettes in public aren’t allowed.