Directions. Name at the informal fallacy the passage below is committing. Also e

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Directions. Name at the informal fallacy the passage below is committing. Also explain why you believe the passage is fallacious. This passage may not be fallacious, and if you think this passage does not commit any fallacy, simply write “No fallacy.

the list of possible fallacys: Appeal to Force, Appeal to Pity, Appeal to the People, Argument Against the Person, Accident, Appeal to Unqualified Authority, Appeal to Ignorance, Hasty Generalization, False Cause, Begging the Question, False Dichotomy, Equivocation, Deontic Fallacy, Composition, And Division.

Passage:

Scene: The produce section of a major supermarket.

Characters: A man, apparently the manager of the market; a woman, apparently the manager's assistant. They are standing before a large counter of fresh strawberries. He is examining one of the strawberries, she is reading from a sheaf of paper.

Dialogue: Woman: "It says in this report that our market has higher prices than our leading competitor." (She keeps reading and looks worried) Man: "Who wrote the report?" (He smiles knowingly, quite unperturbed) Woman: "Our leading competitor." (they begin to walk offcamera) Man: "Of course, who else would write it? If you believe that report, I've got a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell to you." Television Commercial

Explanation / Answer

Solution: The informal fallacy that this passage is committing is False Dichotomy.

This passage has False Dichotomy because the man is asking the woman to reject the report or believe that he has got a bridge in San Francisco. She is put in a false dilemma when there was a third option of considering the truth of the report.

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