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A commercial for extra gum tells a beautiful love story that started with a piece of gum. This commercial impliesthat if you buy extra gum, it will lead you to a more momentous event in your life. What fallacy is committed inthe commercial?

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A commercial for extra gum tells a beautiful love story that started with a piece of gum. This commercial impliesthat if you buy extra gum, it will lead you to a more momentous event in your life. What fallacy is committed inthe commercial?

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The fallacy committed in the commercial is called "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc". This is a common fallacy in which it is assumed that, because one thing happened after another, it must have occurred as a result of it. In this case, the commercial implies that buying Extra gum leads to momentous events in your life, just because the love story in the commercial started with a piece of gum. This is a fallacy because there is no logical or causal connection between buying gum and experiencing significant life events.

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