Identify the fallacies of presumption

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Question: Identify the fallacies of presumption (Begging the Question, Complex Question, False Dilemma, Suppressed Evidence), fallacies of illicit transference (Composition, Division), and fallacies of Ambiguity (Equivocation, Amphiboly) found in the following arguments:

1. Either we require forced sterilization of Third World countries or the world population will explode and all of us will die. We certainly don't want to die, so we must require forced sterilization.

2. Every sentence in this paragraph is well-written. So, the paragraph must be well-written.

3. An athlete is a human being, so a good athlete is a good human being.

4. Why is it so dif?cult for you to reach a decision?

5. Water will quench one's thirst. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Therefore, hydrogen will quench one's thirst, and so will oxygen.

6. People who lack humility have no sense of beauty, because everyone who has a sense of beauty also has humility.

7. Twenty years ago, Kung Fong, the great sumo wrestler, could have yanked up one of the ?r trees in the new municipal arboretum with a single pull. Therefore, since Mr. Fong is as strong today as he was then, he could just as easily pull up one of those trees today.

8. If Thomas gives Marie a ring, then Thomas and Marie will be engaged. Thomas did give Marie a ring. In fact, he phoned her just the other night. Therefore, Thomas and Marie are engaged.

9. Johnson is employed by the General Services Administration, and everyone knows that the GSA is the most inef?cient branch of the government. Therefore, Johnson must be an inef?cient worker.

10. George said that he was interviewing for a job drilling oil wells in the supervisor's of?ce. We can only conclude that the supervisor must have an awfully dirty of?ce

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