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==Examples== {{poemquote| '''Alice''': All cats are animals. Ginger is an animal. Therefore, Ginger is a cat. '''Bob''': You have just fallaciously [[affirming the consequent|affirmed the consequent]]. You are incorrect. Therefore, Ginger is not a cat. }} {{poemquote| '''Alice''': I speak English. Therefore, I am English. '''Bob''': Americans and Canadians, among others, speak English too. By assuming that speaking English and being English always go together, you have just committed the [[package-deal fallacy]]. You are incorrect. Therefore, you are not English. }} Both of Bob's rebuttals are arguments from fallacy. Ginger may or may not be a cat, and Alice may or may not be English. The fact that Alice's argument was fallacious is not, in itself, proof that her conclusion is false. {{poemquote|'''Charlie''': Bob's argument that Ginger is not a cat is fallacious. Therefore, Ginger absolutely must be a cat.}} That one can invoke the argument from fallacy against a position does not prove one's own position either, as this would also be an argument from fallacy, as is the case in Charlie's argument.
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