4: The first photo on this page is an ad for Miami University Alumni Association. The text reads, "Helen, who celebrated her 101st birthday, is the oldest dues paying member of the Miami University Alumni Association." Also included in the ad is, "Why did you join the Miami University Alumni Association? Because I have a special feeling for Miami. It’s a good school." This ad is a subtle
appeal to popularity
appeal to false authority
but acceptable ad with no fallacy
circular reasoning example
5: To give an estimate of the number of gumballs in the second photo’s gumball machine, we would need to
dump the gumballs out and count them.
do induction by enumeration.
guess and hope we are lucky.
hire someone to count them.
6: The picture in the center, of the Volkswagon ad, reads, "$1,002 a pound." This is an implied but fallacious
analogy
dilemma
personal attack
racial slur
7: The early ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes contains a
false analogy
false dilemma
appeal to fear
ad hominem
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