Explanation Given: (Straw man) The mayor wants to raise taxes to fund social programs, so she must not believe in the value of hard work. Explanation: a) The first step of dealing with an argument is recognizing which statements are premises and which are conclusions. This argument tries to make the case that illegal immigrants are criminals, so this statement is its conclusion. The only evidence it offers to support this conclusion is the statement, ‘the mayor wants to raise taxes to fund social programs’, and it is the premise of the argument. Hence this argument has the form: Premise: The mayor wants to raise taxes to fund social programs. Conclusion: She must not believe in the value of hard work. b) This arguments suffers from the fallacy of straw man in which the fact that the mayor is characterized by one quality on which the conclusion is based. c) Consider the figure of fallacy of straw man. In the below figure, the letter p and q stands for a particular statement, ‘She must not believe in the value of hard work

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a. Identify the premise(s) and conclusion of the argument.

b. Briefly describe how the stated fallacy occurs in the argument.

c. Make up another argument that exhibits the same fallacy.

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