Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.From a letter to the editor: "The news media can never be trusted. Shortly before the Geneva summit, the Washington Post decided that a news scoop concerning a confidential letter from the secretary of defense to the president was more important news than a coordinated posture by our negotiating team."
What will be an ideal response?
Hasty generalization.
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perfect form: the circle. The simplest possible arrangement-uniform motion around a circle having Earth as its center-provided a fairly good approximation to the orbits of the Sun and the Moon. But it could not account for the observed variations in planetary brightness or their retrograde motion. Thus, a more complex model was needed to describe the motion of the planets. Eric Chaison and Steve McMillan, Astronomy Today, 3rd ed. A) Argument; conclusion: A more complex model ... motion of the planets. B) Argument; conclusion: But it could not account ... their retrograde motion. C) Nonargument. D) Argument; conclusion: The simplest possible arrangement ... Sun and Moon. E) Argument; conclusion: The earliest models of the solar system ... the circle.
Sidgwick obtains the universal good for humans by:
a. comparison and integration of all goods of sentient existences. b. scrutinizing abstract concepts. c. assessing common opinion. d. all of these answers. e. none of these answers.
According to Buddhism, monks and laity have the same moral obllgations
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.