INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. After eating a Big Mac for breakfast, poor Steve had a heart attack and died. The message is clear: Never eat a Big Mac for breakfast

A) False cause.

B) Weak analogy.

C) No fallacy.

D) Appeal to unqualified authority.

E) Hasty generalization.


A

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