You know, if she didn't stand to make a killing on this sale, I'd believe her when she said that

the brown house would get sold out from under us if we don't buy it now



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(The speaker is guilty of ad hominem, circumstantial reasoning. The argument is that the
agent's claim is not to be believed because the agent has special, self-serving reasons for
making it in the first place.)

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a. true b. false

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