In order to understand what a fallacy are you must understand what an argument is. An argument has of one or more premises and one conclusion. A premise is a statement that is either true or false, that is offered in support of a claim being made, which is the conclusion, which is also a sentence that is either true or false. There are two main types of arguments, relevance and insufficient. A relevance argument …showed first 75 words of 1083 total…

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