Asking your audience to accept something because it represents the customs of our

society, rather than because the issues justify its acceptance, commits the fallacy of
appeal to

(a) ignorance.
(b) the people.
(c) authority.
(d) tradition.


D

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The famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream," is an example of a speech with the purpose to __________.

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