"The Pew Forum, a respected polling organization, released a poll in which they surveyed a random selection of the millennial generation (those born after 1981) and found that they are less religiously active than those from the previous few generations. The poll is probably accurate." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The inconsistency fallacy
B. The fallacy of hasty generalization
C. The weak analogy fallacy
D. The slippery-slope fallacy
E. None of the answers are correct
Answer: E
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A. 10 B 20 C. 40 D. 60 E. 80
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What will be an ideal response?
Western philosophers have tended to dismiss
A) thought articulated in literalist explanations and arguments. B) nonliteral, nonscientific explanations of life and the universe through myth, heroic legends, and nonmonotheistic religions. C) ideas that draw on monotheistic religions. D) ethical reflection.