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Let's spot the logical fallacies
I enjoyed your clever idea of giving your readers a challenge in the Write Back column.
At first, I thought the item by Ronnie Crawford was an embarrassingly bad letter from a religious apologist, until I realised it was really a challenge to spot the logical fallacies.
I counted five straw men, four non sequiturs, three unsubstantiated claims and one likely circular argument. How well did I do?
DR STEPHEN MORETON
Warrington, Cheshire
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