INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Children should be seen and not heard. Therefore, it was wrong for that drowning child to scream for help

A) Accident.

B) No fallacy.

C) Begging the question.

D) Hasty generalization.

E) False dichotomy.


A

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