ACTIVITY Read the following excerpt from the essay, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read" by
Francine Prose. Identify what you consider to be fallacies in her argument and discuss the
effects those fallacies have on the soundness of her argument

A logical fallacy is an untrue statement which is made by a person that does not help his argument, but rather weakens it by making either an incorrect conclusion, or missing the point.

With this in mind, there are different types of fallacy and they are:

For example, if a person tells another person that he is not performing his job well and he replies to him, "you better shut it or I'll smack you", then the second speaker is making use of Argumentum ad Baculum which is an appeal to force.

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Hello. You did not include the passage to which the question refers, which prevents me from showing you the fallacies that the text may contain. However, to help you, I will show you how to identify fallacies and how they weaken a text's arguments. I hope this helped.

Fallacies are arguments that a person presents as true and logical, but they are false and present statements that are not consistent with reality, unprovable and flawed, that emit inaccurate and incorrect information. The fallacies leave the arguments with a fanciful, inconsequential and illogical content, since it has a flawed content and it is not possible to admire and agree.

An example of fallacy occurs with the phrase "my neighbor was bitten by a pitbul, so all pitbuls in the neighborhood must be euthanized as they are dangerous."

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