Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Who cares if the president was guilty of sexual harassment? He got some progress made in terms of jobs, health care, and welfare reform. Those are the important issues!
What will be an ideal response?
This hardly convinces that one ought not care about the sexual harassment issue, of course, but it isn't fallacious.
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a. The synoptics b. Revelations c. Letters or Epistles d. Gospels
The non-universal premiss in a quasi-syllogism is
a. a particular generalization. b. an existential generalization. c. a singular sentence. d. None of these choices.
________ is the yoga of devotion
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Nozick's Basketball Player thought experiment is intended to show that
A. a society based on Rawls' principles would prosper. B. a society based on Rawls' principles would have to constantly violate people's rights. C. capitalist societies are unjust. D. a society based on Rawls' principles would respect the rights of the people.