Identify any fallacies in the following passage taken from the text."Women should not be allowed in combat, because it is prohibited by the Defense Department."
What will be an ideal response?
Begging the question.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. United States Marshals are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom. But attorneys are officers of the court, no less than U.S. Marshals. Therefore, attorneys are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom
A) Weak analogy. B) No fallacy. C) Appeal to unqualified authority. D) Hasty generalization. E) Equivocation.
To which patriarch did God utter these words?
"I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you."
a. Abraham b. Moses c. Isaac d. Jacob
The power or essence of a deity is believed to be in the murti, either temporarily or permanently
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. All non-A are B. (T) Subalternation
A) Some A are non-B. (T) B) Some non-A are B. (T) C) Some A are not B. (F) D) No non-A are B. (F) E) Some A are B. (T)