Critical Thinking Virginia uses the association fallacy to blame her father’s dominance when she says that she could not have written as much as she did if her father would be alive. She uses a fallacy that cannot be supported fully with justifiable evidence. There is also the use of rival cause in this story where the writer indicates; “had it not been for Leonard, Virginia would probably have been committed.” The reason for the use of rival cause is to simplify the important role that Leonard played in informing the medics about her overdose. He was intimately concerned about her wife basing on her mental instabilities. There is the use of rival cause when the writer says, “Leonard was not...
