What formal fallacy is committed by the following argument? "Our baby needs affection. For if our baby needs affection, she cries and she is crying now."
A) denying the antecedent B) affirming the consequent C) affirming a disjunct
B
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Their key idea was to state the faith of Islam in philosophical terms, thus gaining the full
support of reason.
a. hubris b. falasafa c. caliphs d. dhikr
Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Obviously he didn't cheat on the test. He never cheats.
What will be an ideal response?
Good reasoning is a key not only to philosophy, but to
a. success in getting what you want out of life. b. generating anxiety. c. generating doubt. d. failure to live a proper human life.
To bind a group of people together into a state, a social contract doesn't have to:
A. be voluntary. B. be unanimously agreed to. C. be explicitly consented to. D. include a surrender of individual rights to the state. E. Neither C nor D