Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language in the following passage.If you are rich, then your car is something like a Mercedes or a Bentley. Oh! Is that your Bentley, you rich old thing, you?

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Affirming the consequent

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Determine whether the following claim is best classified as semantically ambiguous (and whether this contains grouping ambiguities), syntactically ambiguous, or free from ambiguity: People who go shopping often go broke.

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In the context of chastity, which of the following statements is true of the moral principles of Jainism?

A) ?Lay Jains must completely abstain from all sexual intercourse. B) ?Sexual thoughts are not considered a violation of Jain principles. C) ?Sexual intercourse after a long period of abstinence does not bind one to karma. D) ?Sex outside of marriage is particularly powerful in attracting karma.

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Which right is limited to citizens by the U.S. Constitution?

a. Political freedom. b. Voting. c. Due process. d. Equal protection

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