Fallacies Of Ambiguity, Complex Absurdity&Logical Fallacies

Fallacies Of Ambiguity & Complex Absurdity By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

Fallacies of ambiguity

·        Applying any term, for example, ‘more’ in following examples in an ambiguous manner to lend spurious plausibility to assertions.

·        Bananas of southern region have twice as much flavor for your money as the bananas of northern region because the bananas of southern region are twice as large as the bananas of northern region.

·        Bananas of southern region have twice as much flavor for your money as the bananas of northern region because the cost of a package of the bananas of southern region having twice as many bananas is same as the cost of package of the bananas of northern region.

Complex absurdity

·        The more is better; the bananas of southern region have twice as much flavor for your money as the bananas of northern region as a package of the bananas of southern region costs twice as much as the package of northern region.

·        We do not value things if they are always around, before the drought struck, the people of this town had always taken water for granted. We must, therefore, wait for any occurrence that reduces considerably the air people breathe so that people begin to value air.

·        If every speaker has to be fluent to be called speaker, then every fluent has to be fluent to be called fluent. 

Logical Fallacies By Irtiza Hassan Ansari
Logical Fallacies

Fallacies by Irtiza Hassan Ansari (student of grade 7 in Hira Grammar school)

·        Nawaz Sheriff (recently elected prime minister) won election because of his pledge to a nation that he would finish power outages; therefore for wining election in Pakistan one must make the same pledge. 

·        Students have books; therefore, if he has books he must be a student.

·        Players of basketball are tall; therefore if anyone is tall so he must be a basket ball player.

·        Rich people study in Harvard University; he is rich so he must be a student of Harvard University.