Decide which statements are fallacies and if they are a fallacy, explain your re

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Decide which statements are fallacies and if they are a fallacy, explain your reasoning.

1. If you start out with a bottle of beer a day and then go on to a glass or
two of wine on the weekends, you’re well on your way to becoming a
hopeless drunk.
2. Two Indians are sitting on a fence. The small Indian is the son of the big
Indian, but the big Indian is not the small Indian’s father. How is that
possible?
3. If you toss a coin fi ve times and each time it come up heads, is it more
likely than not that on the sixth throw you’ll come up heads again — or
is it more likely that you’ll come up tails? Or is neither more likely?
4. You can’t trust anything he says. When he was young he was an avid
Communist.
5. Since 9/11 we’ve tried and convicted few terrorists, so our defense systems
must be working.

6. We can trust the White House in its press releases because it’s a reliable
source of information.
7. Intelligent design must be true because the theory of evolution can’t explain
how life began.

8. You are at the beach and you watch a ship steaming toward the horizon.
Bit by bit it disappears from view — fi rst the masts, then the upper deck,
then the main deck, then the stern, and then it’s gone. Why would it be
wrong to infer that the ship is sinking?

9. In the 1930s it was commonplace to see ads announcing “More Doctors
Smoke Camels.” What do you make of such an ad?

Explanation / Answer

(3) the statement no (3) is false as it is just the matter of change of getting 5 Heads continuously so it is likely to get anything at the sixth time whether Head or Tail..!!

(1) the statement no (1) is not correct as just by drinking on weekends don't make us drunker.

(8) the statement no (8) is false as steaming towards horizon doesn't means that they are sinking. It can also state that the ship is slowly slowly moving far from the eyes vision due to increase in the distance..!!

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