"It is overly pessimistic to think that a nuclear war could destroy all human life on Earth. For a social scientist I met at Jane's party last night said he has substantial evidence against it" commits the fallacy of
A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority
E
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Are these arguments valid?
If time travel is possible, we would now have lots of time-travel visitors from the future. But we have no such visitors. So time travel is not possible. Jen is either in San Diego or in Tokyo. Since she is not in Tokyo, she is in San Diego. Some people are nice. Some people are rich. So some people are rich and nice.
Talents of the mind:
a. are good without exception. b. are good because they accord with reason. c. are good only in some circumstances. d. a and b. e. b and c.
In "Persons with adequate health insurance are better equipped to bear the costs of hospitalization and other expensive care when it becomes necessary;
so Mrs. DiNapoli needn't worry about the cost of her gall bladder surgery coming up next week" the missing premise is A) The cost of health insurance is outweighed by its benefits. B) Mrs. DiNapoli has adequate health insurance. C) Many people lack adequate health insurance.
Recent feminist moral philosophy
a. all shares the same view that gender should not be a factor in moral reasoning. b. has included the use of moral paradigms that appeal to concepts like trust, respect, and caring. c. rejects any kind of “logic of relationships,” preferring instead a “formal logic of justice.” d. has embraced the moral philosophy of ethicists such as Kant and those who have opted for what might be called a “contractual” type of ethic.