Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 149

Short Answer

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
he: Well, things didn't work out quite the way I wanted, but that's the way life often is.
she: That's not my philosophy. Your dreams will come if you want them to, but you really have to want them to.

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