Consider the following argument: "The bill that Congress wants to pass is very unpopular. Unless they want to have trouble in the next election cycle, they probably shouldn't pass it." Which of the following fallacies has been committed in this argument?
A. a bandwagon argument
B. the fallacy of scare tactics
C. There is no fallacy committed in this argument
D. the fallacy of equivocation
Answer: C
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After william lane craig establishes that an objective moral law exists, he thinks that we have to decide if platonism is true
a. true b. false
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what, on Pruss’s view, happens to the original embryo?
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