Identify any fallacies in the following two passages. Why are they different?Letter to the editor: "Your food section frequently features recipes with veal, and you say veal is a wholesome, nutritious dish. I disagree. Do you know how veal comes to be on your plate? At birth a newborn calf is separated from its mother, placed in a dark enclosure, and chained by its neck so that it cannot move freely. This limits muscular development so that the animal is tender. It is kept in the dark pen until the day it is cruelly slaughtered."-Cascade News
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Argument from pity.
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What strategy ought the author to use in order to persuade a reasonable audience?
(a) presenting sound reasons and credible evidence for the author's claim (b) offering desirable incentives for believing the author (c) threatening retribution for failing to believe the author (d) pretending that the author does not care what the audience believes (e) presenting any reasons that might work, sound, or unsound
Affirming the consequent is a valid deductive argument form.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Sikhs believe that remembering God does not remove death
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
In order to avoid Hume's conclusion that we cannot know that every event has a cause, Kant argues that we can know that all events, even those in the future, will have causes because:
A. our belief that future events will have causes is recognized by every culture. B. our belief that future events will have causes is guaranteed by God. C. we can experience causation just like we can experience color. D. we can experience something as an event only if our minds bring it under the category of cause.