1. For each passage, determine which fallacy occurs. Explain why you chose that fallacy. a. Joe...

 

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1. For each passage, determine which fallacy occurs. Explain why you chose that fallacy. a. Joe Morgan, announcing a Giants-Marlins baseball game and commenting on the Marlins pitcher: "He's been a little erratic, which explains why he hasn't been consistent." b. In an interview with Sarah, Duchess of York, Larry King asked whether she was friends with Prince Charles. She replied, "Well, Larry, the important thing is that I have great respect for the royal family." c. It is reported that when Socrates was condemned to death, his wife cried out, "Those wretched judges have condemned him to death unjustly!" To which Socrates is said to have replied, "Would you really prefer that I were justly condemned?" d. In attacking a proposed equal rights amendment to the state constitution of lowa, Pat Robertson argued that the proposal was part of a "feminist agenda... a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." 1. For each passage, determine which fallacy occurs. Explain why you chose that fallacy. a. Joe Morgan, announcing a Giants-Marlins baseball game and commenting on the Marlins pitcher: "He's been a little erratic, which explains why he hasn't been consistent." b. In an interview with Sarah, Duchess of York, Larry King asked whether she was friends with Prince Charles. She replied, "Well, Larry, the important thing is that I have great respect for the royal family." c. It is reported that when Socrates was condemned to death, his wife cried out, "Those wretched judges have condemned him to death unjustly!" To which Socrates is said to have replied, "Would you really prefer that I were justly condemned?" d. In attacking a proposed equal rights amendment to the state constitution of lowa, Pat Robertson argued that the proposal was part of a "feminist agenda... a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."

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