Exercise 10.2

Please identify any fallacies of irreverences (genetic fallacy, composition, division, appeal to the person equivocation, appeal to popularity, appeal to tradition, appeal to ignorance, appeal to emotion, red herring, and straw man). Some passages may contain more than one fallacy, and a few may contain no fallacies at all. Also identify any rhetorical devices highlighted in this chapter.

1. "Seeing that the eye and hand and foot and every one of our members has some obvious function, must we not believe that in like manner a human being has a function over and above these particular functions?" [Aristotle]
2. The federal budget deficits are destroying this country. Just ask any working stiff; he'll tell you.
3. The hippies of the sixties railed against the materialistic, capitalistic system and everyone who prospered init. But all their bellyaching was crap because they were a bunch of hypocrites, living off their rich mothers and fathers.
4. Anthony argues that capital punishment should be abolished. But why should we listen to him? He's a prisoner on death row right now.
5. The New York Times reported that one-third of Republican senators have been guilty of Senate ethics violations. But you know that's false - the Times is a notorious liberal rag.