Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."What are they are talking about, it rains a lot in Seattle? We went there in October-had nothing but beautiful weather."
What will be an ideal response?
Generalizing from exceptional cases, biased sample.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each multiple choice question. In an explanation, the statement or statements that purport to do the explaining are called:
A) The explanandum. B) The antecedent. C) The explanans. D) The consequent. E) The premises.
What is the name of the logical form "All A are B, All C are B; therefore, All C are A"?
a. Barbara b. affirming the consequent c. undistributed middle d. modus ponens
According to Marcus Aurelius in the Meditations
a. longer lives are necessarily better than shorter ones. b. it makes no difference in the end whether you live a long life or a short one: either way you are going to die. c. death is the greatest evil. d. life is a bottomless pit of muck and despair.
Russell shows that our _________________ provide us with a tremendous variety of (often, conflicting) impressions of the _________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word