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All banks are beside rivers.

Therefore, the financial institution where I deposit my money is beside a river.


Answer: Equivocation

Why are you asking me about Mary's message? I resent her question.
Answer: Amphibology or Amphiboly

The human body is made up of cells, which are invisible.


Therefore, the body is invisible.
Answer: Composition

The universe has existed for fifteen billion years.


The universe is made out of molecules.
Therefore, each of the molecules in the universe has existed for fifteen billion years.
Answer: Division

Birds normally can fly.


Tweety the Penguin is a bird.
Therefore, Tweety can fly.
Answer: Accidents

Bill thinks that welfare is needed in some cases. His friends in the Young Republicans taunt him
every time he makes his views known. He accepts their views in order to avoid rejection.
Answer: Peer pressure

Before turning the floor over to my opponent, I ask you to remember that those who oppose my
plans do not have the best wishes of the university at heart.
Answer: Poisoning the well

The picture on Jim’s old TV set goes out of focus. Jim goes over and strikes the TV soundly on
the side and the picture goes back into focus. Jim tells his friend that hitting the TV fixed it.
Answer: Post hoc

You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they’ll walk all over you.
Answer: Slippery slope

God must exist. After all, I just saw a poll that says 85% of all Americans believe in God.
Answer: Appeal to common belief

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