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Identify Any Formal Fallacies or Fallacies of Language in the Following

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Short Answer

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language in the following passage.
Professor Stooler wants to conserve clean air and water. If that doesn't make him a Conservative, I don't know what does.


Definitions:

True Premises

Foundational statements or assumptions in an argument that are accepted as being true, forming the basis for the argument's conclusion.

Sound

The property of a deductive argument that is valid and whose premises are true.

Invalid

Refers to an argument or reasoning where the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises.

Validity

The property of a deductive argument in which it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.

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