"No evidence was found of covert C.I.A. support of rebels in Chechnya. So we may conclude with confidence that there was no involvement by the C.I.A in the civil strife in Chechnya" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


D

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