Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>    "In 2005, music sales in the UK fell by 5%. Music piracy represents a 
> significant global problem."

  That's quite an amusing sentence since it contains so many non-sequitur
fallacies. For example, it contains an "affirming the consequent" fallacy:

  - If people pirate music, it decreases sales.
  - Sales have decreased.
  - Therefore, people pirate music.

  It also has a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy:

  - People pirate music.
  - Sales have decreased.
  - Therefore, sales have decreased because people pirate music.

  How about "illicit conversion":

  - All music piracy decreases sales.
  - Therefore all decrement in sales is because of music piracy.

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                                                          - Warp

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