"They Knew The Unkown" by Martin Ebon

Fallacies:	Evidence:	Purpose:
Wishful thinking: something that is true because I want it to be true	“I wondered at the sureness with which they could assert that things like ghosts and tableturning were impossible and therefore fraudulent… I too was not certain of the absolute reliability of the reports, but why, after all, should there not be ghosts?  How did we know that was impossible?” – Carl G. Jung page 1	This fallacy is trying to get people in the right mindset to read the rest of the book.  As soon as you open the cover you see people responding to the content and the first quote is someone who was skeptical but then questioned their thoughts.  They even said, why not, why can’t ghosts be real?  They’re wanting to believe that ghosts are a thing and therefore the paranormal and telepathic events are actually real.
Com Hoc: Two things that happened at the same time must have a causal relationship	In the introduction, the book talks about how a man named George didn’t believe in telepathy and such until something happened.  He hadn’t heard from a friend in awhile and began thinking of him, the next day he got a letter from that friend and he began to believe something was going on.	The fact that the letter came a day after the man thought of his friend is drawing a causal relationship between the two events.  There isn’t any clear enough evidence from his description that can prove it other wise.