Gwen plays basketball and soccer and has won many awards for the two sports. She thinks she should learn a new sport. She expects to be good at it, given her performance in the other sports. Would her argument be stronger, weaker, or neither if the sports she excelled at were tennis and badminton, but planned to learn soccer?

What will be an ideal response?


Weaker. The premise-analogue and the conclusion-analogue are different.

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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.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?

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The Homeric gods were often unpredictable and capricious

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Pharr claims that the threat of violence plays little role in keeping women under the domination of men

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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