Appeal to Ignorance is to openly declare that one does not know
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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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."A preliminary economic analysis suggests that federal government proposals to protect the northern spotted owl will cost the Pacific Northwest about 40,000 jobs-and the effect on the spotted owl population is pretty much unknown. But, hey, what do the livelihoods of 40,000 human beings matter when the government is responding to pressure groups?"-Orange County Register
What will be an ideal response?
INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below, you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some non-A are not B. (F) Contraposition
A) Some B are not A. (F) B) Some B are not non-A. (T) C) Some non-B are not A. (F) D) Some A are not non-B. (T) E) Some non-B are non-A. (F)
In an argument, formal or conceptual circularity
A) always renders the argument question begging. B) always renders the argument invalid. C) is a matter of degree.
Make this inductive (statistical) syllogism into a strong argument by supplying an appropriate premise or conclusion: People who go to Burning Man are not like you and me. Why just look at how odd Greg is!
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