INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Connor hasn't a shred of athletic ability, and he does well even to breathe. Therefore, he couldn't have swum across Diamond Lake, as he claims to have done. After all, the lake is 3 miles across

A) Appeal to unqualified authority.

B) Argument against the person, circumstantial.

C) False cause.

D) No fallacy.

E) Argument against the person, abusive.


D

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