Which direct speech act could "Please treat your pets in a more humane way" be used to perform?
A) informative B) directive C) expressive D) commissive
B
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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.Pop, a new car may be expensive, but do you want me to drive around in this junk pile the rest of my life?
What will be an ideal response?
What feature does Minch claim is essential to every moral theory?
a. Rationality b. Autonomous responsibility c. All of these choices d. Universality
On what grounds does Pojman reject the Role Models Argument?
a. One does not need role models of one’s own race and gender to succeed. b. Even if having role models of one’s own race and gender were helpful to disadvantaged individuals, such considerations would not justify preferential treatment in hiring. c. Hiring less qualified individuals to be role models is unlikely to result in a good. d. All of the above
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. It is false that no genetic experiments are ethical procedures. Therefore, all genetic experiments are ethical procedures
A) Valid; no fallacy. B) Invalid; illicit conversion. C) Invalid; existential fallacy. D) Invalid; illicit subcontrary. E) Invalid; illicit contrary.