INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Either Thomas Edison or Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. But it wasn't Edison. Therefore, Morse invented the telegraph
A) No fallacy.
B) Division.
C) False dichotomy.
D) Appeal to ignorance.
E) Appeal to the people.
A
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