INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Either the Nile or the Amazon is the longest river. But the Amazon is not the longest river. Therefore, the Nile is the longest river

A) No fallacy.

B) Suppressed evidence.

C) False dichotomy.

D) Composition.

E) Straw man.


A

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