What americans need is patience

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Question: For this assignment identify and explain the fallacy of ambiguity contained in each of the following statements. If you do not think a logical fallacy has been committed then explain why.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
No one on this committee is especially outstanding in ability. It is impossible for the committee, therefore, to produce a useful report.
What Americans need is patience. A water well goes dry and nature replenishes it by sending a good rain. Nature shall replenish the great oil reservoirs. Scientists say it takes a few million years. All we need is patience.
Some claim prostitution is a growing problem. But that isn't the half of it! At least half of the men and women today are prostitutes who sell their bodies and their minds in jobs that are personally meaningless and socially destructive.
The place is so crowded that nobody goes there anymore. (Yogi Berra)
It is predicted that the consumer price index will rise again next month. So you can expect to be paying more for butter and eggs next month.
I know the theory of evolution is true because I see people evolve in their beliefs all the time.
Volkswagen does it again. (advertisement)
Can the universe think about itself? We know that at least part of it can: we ourselves. It seems reasonable then to conclude that the whole universe can as well.
Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; the state or political community, which is the highest of them all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at a good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good. (Aristotle, Politics)

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