Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.Overheard: "You don't think this country is in a slump? Get real. George here was laid off before Memorial Day, and Howie's wife and a whole bunch of other people lost their jobs when the Safeway over on Jeffrey closed down. These are tough times."
What will be an ideal response?
Hasty generalization.
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a) commercial surrogacy. b) informed consent. c) commercial medicine. d) euthanasia.
Translations of English expressions into an artificial symbolic language a. should capture the nuances of English. b. should preserve meaning insofar as it is relevant for assessing validity ofarguments
c. resemble translations into another natural language. d. All of these choices.
In the Quran, one frequently finds the imperative:
a. "Do" b. "Say" c. "Conquer". d. "Hear"
Hard determinists claim that no one acts freely because all of our actions are caused by forces beyond our control. Indeterminists try to avoid the conclusion that no one acts freely because they believe that some actions are
A. unavoidable. B. caused by the will. C. uncaused. D. caused by the self.