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    The argument contains an ad hominem fallacy. It attacks Professor Lewis's claim about wives cooking for husbands by pointing out that his own wife does not cook for him, rather than addressing the merits of the claim itself. The argument also contains an appeal to ignorance fallacy in assuming that vitamin C helped recover from colds, when the role of vitamin C is not conclusively established. No firm conclusion can be drawn from personal experience alone.

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    The argument contains an ad hominem fallacy. It attacks Professor Lewis's claim about wives cooking for husbands by pointing out that his own wife does not cook for him, rather than addressing the merits of the claim itself. The argument also contains an appeal to ignorance fallacy in assuming that vitamin C helped recover from colds, when the role of vitamin C is not conclusively established. No firm conclusion can be drawn from personal experience alone.

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    EXERCISE 5

    IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF FALLACIES IN THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT


    a. Red Herring Fallacies
    b. Ad hominem
    c. Guilts by Association
    d. Appeals to Popularity
    e. False Dilemma
    f. Straw man
    g. Mr. Lee's views on Japanese culture are wrong. This is because his parents were killed
    by the Japanese army during World War II and that made him anti-Japanese all his life.
    (hasty generalization)
    h. Smoking causes cancer because my father was a smoker and he died of lung cancer. (no
    fallacy)
    i. Professor Lewis, the world authority on logic, claims that all wives cook for their
    husbands. But the fact is that his own wife does not cook for him. Therefore, his claim is
    false. (Ad hominem)
    j. The last three times I have had a cold I took large doses of vitamin C. On each occasion,
    the cold cleared up within a few days. So, vitamin C helped me recover from colds
    (Appeal to Ignorance)

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