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.She: We'd do well to get a Zenith. Their salesman told me they have the best repair record of any brand on the market.He: Well, forget that. He sells Zeniths, for crying out loud; of course he'd tell you they have the best record.
What will be an ideal response?
Ad hominem, circumstantial.
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Religion assumes:
1. logic and argumentation will reveal the nature of God. 2. authority figures and holy texts reveal the nature of God. 3. experimentation hypothesis testing will reveal the nature of God. 4. philosophy is useless.
Around 1700, a movement within Shinto emphasized that the Japanese people:
A) ?were the soldiers of the gods. B) ?must not worship idols. C) ?were the descendants of the gods. D) ?must practice Buddhism.
Determine whether the following passage contains an argument and, if it does, identify that argument's final conclusion."You've got every reason to add another telephone line, despite the cost. The way it is now, you tie up your phone for hours while you're on your computer. If people need to reach you in an emergency, they can't do it."
What will be an ideal response?
Hume claims that we can't justify induction by appeal to experience because
A. that would assume what we're trying to prove. B. that would be a fallacious appeal to authority. C. the principle that the future will resemble the past doesn't follow from any other principle. D. the principle that the future will resemble the past is self-contradictory.