ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors analyze nine relevance fallacies defined in books by leading authorities. They give two examples from everyday life and present a set of four dialogues in which Pat states a fallacious argument, Chris provides feedback, and Pat replies with differing levels of grey behavior. The False Dilemma fallacy happens when someone tries to establish a conclusion by offering it as the only alternative to something most people will find unacceptable, unattainable, or implausible. A form of flawed argument is to argue that an action is acceptable simply because someone else acted in a similar way. An ad hominem argument rejects or dismisses another person’s statement by attacking the person rather than the statement itself.
