Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.First bicycle rider: How come when we coast downhill you always go so much faster than I?Second bicycle rider: Because I'm heavier. Heavier things fall faster.Third bicycle rider: Wait a minute. I thought that was what Galileo proved wrong.Second bicycle rider: C'mon! That's only common sense. Heavy things are bound to fall faster. Just look at how fast I coast-and I'm the heaviest.

What will be an ideal response?


Mixed in with the faulty casual explanation is the reasonable generalization that you always coast faster downhill than I do.

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