Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin and President Harry Truman. The major issue at Potsdam was the question of how to handle Germany. At Yalta, the Soviets had pressed for heavy postwar reparations from Germany, half of which would go to the Soviet Union.
1 A logical fallacy is a false statement that weakens an argument by distorting an issue, drawing false conclusions, misusing evidence, or misusing language 2  .. (Dave Kemper et al., Fusion: Integrated Reading and Writing.
One piece of evidence against one person is not enough to support. a generalization about an entire profession. Fallacies are errors in reasoning (deliberate or not) that weaken an argument and, of. course, the quality of the essay that contains the argument.