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Kelsea Wilemon

Dr. Robison

ENC1102-75

1 September 2015

The logical fallacy identified in question five is False Analogy. False Analogy is a false comparison between two objects or two different points of view. In the cartoon two men are sitting next to each other in their cars. One of them is a member of the National Regulatory Authority that says “Guns don’t kill people do” and the other one is a drug dealer that says, “Drugs don’t kill people do”. This cartoon actually comes across comical because both of them are obviously going to have two different points of view. These two analogies are not something you can really compare because we have constitutional rights to bear arms, but drugs do not have constitutional rights. It is like comparing oranges to apples. They are two completely unrelated topics. However they can both be dangerous, but drugs and guns do not serve the same purpose. They are two completely different subjects.

The logical fallacy identified in question six is equivocation. Equivocation works by intentionally using a word that has more than one interpretation. It misleads the reader or listener by comparing two things that are not necessarily equal. In the cartoon, two students were caught cheating and tried to explain their actions to the professor by saying “We weren’t cheating. We were consulting.” As it

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shows in the cartoon the professor is clearly unimpressed by the students witty response. If I were the teacher, my response would be consulting during a test is not allowed. Even though the students tried to twist the truth the professor knew they were lying. The students did not want to get in trouble, so therefore they resulted in twisting the truth and hoping that the professor would believe them.

People use logical fallacies all the time-sometimes on purpose and sometimes...