What formal fallacy is committed by the following argument? "Since the official residence of the prime minister is on Downing Street only if he lives in London, and he does live in London, it follows the prime minister's official residence is on

Downing Street." A) denying the antecedent B) affirming the consequent C) affirming a disjunct


B

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Al-Ghazali writes, "Just as intellect is one of the stages of human development in which there is an 'eye' which sees the various types of intelligible objects, which are beyond the ken of the senses, so prophecy also is the description of a stage in which there is an eye endowed with light such that in that light the unseen and other supra-intellectual objects become visible." This passage

indicates that al-Ghazali is A) an empiricist. B) a rationalist. C) an absolute skeptic. D) a mystic.

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One of the four kinds of law for Aquinas is not:

a. Human law b. none of these are correct c. Natural law d. Eternal law

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As the number of Christian converts grow, the Roman government no longer dismissed them as simply being __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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