1. Identify the fallacy in the following argument: "My proposal is the surest solution to the problem. After all, no one has provided a good reason why it would fail."
• Ad populem
• Ad ignorantiam
• Slippery slope
• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
2. In the present health care debate, much of the early debate concerned the number of people who were uninsured, with advocates of universal health care arguing that there were approximately 47 million uninsured Americans and opponents arguing that millions of these should not be counted because they were young and healthy people who voluntarily went without insurance. To which of the five stases does this portion of the debate correspond?
• Definition
• Cause and Consequence
• Value
• Procedure or Proposal
3. Another axis of the debate has pitted those who argue that health care is a fundamental right of being a citizen against those who argue that it is a commodity that must be paid for. To which of the five stases does this portion of the debate correspond?
• Conjecture
• Cause and Consequence
• Value
• Procedure or Proposal