“Either you will buy this car from me today or you can go somewhere else and get ripped off.” What flaw prevents you from accepting this statement?

a) The middle term is not used in its universal or unqualified sense.
b) The minor premise doesn’t affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent.
c) The major premise doesn’t include all reasonable alternatives.
d) The points of the analogy are not similar.


ANS: c

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