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.So they came along and made me take my sign down because it was in violation of the city sign code. But look at the signs down in the next block, will you? They're under the same code, and they're just like the one I had to take down.
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This may be an appeal to common practice, but there may be a reasonable appeal here as well, an appeal to fair play or equal treatment.
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Every argument has:
a. a conclusion b. good logic c. a truth-preserving rule d. evidence
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. It is false that no landlords are entrepreneurs who evict tenants. Therefore, all landlords are entrepreneurs who evict tenants
A) Invalid; illicit contrary. B) Valid; no fallacy. C) Invalid; existential fallacy. D) Invalid; illicit conversion. E) Invalid; illicit subcontrary.
Which of the following was NOT an essential aspect of Wundt's research on mental chronometry?
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The desire for a separation of church and state came about as the result of
A. the thought of Chinese and Japanese philosophers. B. the religious wars in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. C. contact between Europe and non-Western cultures. D. greater travel as a result of mapmaking.