Chapter 6 Fallacies
Of course I’m going to win the lottery. I really, really need the money.
Look, you can argue about it all day long, but I believe that Jones is the best person for the job, and I hope he gets it.
Men gossip? I don’t think so. We never gossip. We merely exchange useful information.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: My client stands before you accused of three bank robberies. But the prosecution has not told you about the three little children in this story, who will have a hard time getting food on their table if their daddy goes to prison.
That snake has the markings of a coral snake and coral snakes are deadly poisonous. So, you shouldn’t touch that snake.
There is a good deal of talk these days about the need to eliminate pesticides from our fruits and vegetables. But many of these foods are essential to our health. Carrots, for example, are an excellent source of vitamin A and oranges have lots of vitamin C.
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Mr. Hughes, it would be wrong for you to flunk me for cheating. I am a single mother, and to provide for my two kids, I have to work three jobs. At the end of the day, I am absolutely exhausted, and after I drag my weary body home, I have neither the time nor the energy to study.
Student to classmate: "I deserve to see your answers to the chemistry take-home, because if you don't let me see them, I'm going to tell the lab instructor that you fabricated all the data on your last lab report."
The clerk gave me change for a twenty when I only gave him a ten. I would have told him about it, but I’ve been short-changed at that place before.
Parent to child: “Son, if you don’t go to bed this instant, Santa Claus will take note of it.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: My client stands before you accused of three bank robberies. But the prosecution has not told you about the three little children in this story, who will have a hard time getting food on their table if their daddy goes to prison.
“Of course I bought the matzo bread from Kroger’s Supermarket because it is the cheapest brand and I wanted to save money,” says Alex [who knows he bought the bread from Kroger's Supermarket only because his girlfriend works there].