Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Reconstruction of a remark heard at a faculty meeting: "The quality of teaching performance cannot be measured. No matter what administrators at campuses around the country might say, teaching performance is simply not the kind of thing to which you can assign measurable variables and then compare a bunch of numbers at the beginning of a course and again at its end. That isn't the way it works."
What will be an ideal response?
Begging the question.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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The ecumenical council meeting in Nicaea took up the question concerning __________
a. whether Jesus was God b. whether there was life after death c. what happened to those who failed to accept Jesus d. apostolic succession
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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