This fallacy is committed when someone argues the following:
"Ms. X must be a bad woman because her mother was a thief and her father was a drunk," or "That idea can't be worth anything if Professor Smith came up with it, for he's from the Bronx."
a. appeal to authority
b. appeal to ignorance
c. genetic fallacy
d. is/ought fallacy
c
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What will be an ideal response?
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a) divisive; b) creative; c) misleading; d) readily solved.
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a. Saints c. An impersonal God b. A personal God d. Polytheistic gods