Some music theorists argue that music can arouse pity in the listener  But since pity can be felt only when there is someone or something to be pitied, and since nothing but the music is available to be the object of the listener' s pity, if anything is pitiable, then it is the music itself
But it makes no sense to say that a piece of music is pitiable; so music cannot arouse pity in the listener
Some science writers imagine what life would be like if humans could inhabit distant planets. Inhabiting these planets, they claim, is an inevitable consequence of current research. But it is absurd to think that humans will actually live on other planets. Ttherefore, it must be wrong to claim that this follows inevitably from current research.