[VadeRetro]

My favorite equivocation example is the ham sandwich argument.

Nothing is better than realizing all of one's desires.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than realizing all of one's desires.

There is a subtle shift in the meaning of "nothing." And one again, as Lewis Carroll did in the Looking Glass example, the speaker makes "nothing" an object in a hierarchy of rank.

[BMCDA]

There is a subtle shift in the meaning of "nothing." And one again, as Lewis Carroll did in the Looking Glass example, the speaker makes "nothing" an object in a hierarchy of rank.

Yepp, the good old Odyssean fallacy: reification of nothing ;)

[mattdono]

Umm. Ham.

Well, I have to tell you, the leftover ham sandwiches I had from XMAS where pretty close to realizing every desire I have every had in life. LOL! 8^)