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if other package delivery services can make money, the USPS should be able to make money too. which logical fallacy is found in this sentence?1) false analogy 2)red herring 3)non sequitur 4)bandwagon appeal​

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Answer: False Analogy

Explanation: Just bc someone else gets to doesn’t ALWAYS mean you get to as well.

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Answer:

False analogy

Step-by-step explanation:

Literally, false analogy is a kind of fallacy that implies that if two items have a certain quality in common, then they must also have other qualities in common.

In the above question;

USPS and the other package delivery services are delivery service companies; that's a common quality (say quality 1)

The statement then goes that, if the other package delivery service makes money (making money, is another quality; say quality 2), then USPS must also have this quality.

This kind of statements are referred to as false analogy.

Because having a common quality A, doesn't translate to having a common quality B

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