Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."Never trust that TV manufacturing company. I bought a TV from them and it got spoilt within a month!"

What will be an ideal response?


Hasty generalization/generalizing from exceptional cases.

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A) ?H 2, 3, DS B) ?P • ?(P ? ?H) 2, 3, Conj C) ?P • H 3, DM D) E 1, 2, MT E) ?P ? E 1, Trans

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Kant believed that the only proper way to determine what is moral is to have a process where we can establish the rule ahead of time; the term he used means "what is before"  in Latin

a. intrinsic b. a priori c. acquire d. habeas corpus

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According to Hobbes, the powers of the Sovereign are:

a. Subordinate to the powers of the Militia b. Highly constrained c. Virtually unlimited. d. Operative only outside the State. e. Weaker than the power of the individual.

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In an "argument from definition," the conclusion is presented as being true by definition.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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