Evaluate the following analogical argument:I like Fuji apples; I'll bet Fuji pears are good too.

What will be an ideal response?


We're not so sure. There are all kinds of reasons that both fruits could be called "Fuji," including simply that they were first produced near the famous Japanese mountain. If our speaker said he liked every pear he'd ever eaten, he'd have a much better argument than this one.

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