Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."This antique dealer should know what's wrong with this old car of ours."

What will be an ideal response?


MistakenĀ appeal to authority.

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Which of the following does Hallie accuse Bennett of wrongly disregarding in his ranking of immoral actions?

a. the sympathies of the moral agent b. the beliefs of the moral agent c. the perceptions of the moral agent d. the harm done to the victim

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Behaviorism is the school of psychology that _____

A. claims that human action is determined by individual free choice B. denies free will and sees human action as the response to an external stimulus C. explains that human actions result from the behavior of the id and superego D. explains that human behavior is determined by the genetic coding in human DNA

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Leveling is, for Kierkegaard,

a. the road to objectivity b. a reduction to mediocrity c. the Way d. the Path

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What is Simone de Beauvoir suggesting when she says, "One is not born a woman"?

What will be an ideal response?

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