Dixon contends that a high rate of handgun ownership is one of the causes of high
rate of homicide. How does Pulsby respond to this claim?
a. Correlation does not imply causation.
b. It is more likely that increases in crime lead law?abiding citizens to purchase
handguns in order to protect themselves, their property and their families.
c. Guns are not the root cause of crime—the fact is that for many people, crime
represents their best economic option.
d. All of the above
ANS: D
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The oil wells are not expected to disrupt the sensitive economic system in the Valley's Basin
a. True b. False
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Frank argues that it's not a good idea for underage people to drink alcoholic beverages. Apparently Frank wants everyone to be a teetotaler. Bring back prohibition for good-that's what Frank wants. But prohibition was a complete failure in the thirties. Obviously Frank's argument is misguided
A) Accident. B) Begging the question. C) No fallacy. D) Hasty generalization. E) Straw man.
Alexandria became the great commercial city and symbol of the vibrant cosmopolitanism of the Hellenistic or
a. Persian-like Ages of Greece and Egypt. b. Greek-like Ages of the Near East. c. Mesopotamian-like Age of Greece. d. broadly Egyptian Ages of the eastern Mediterranean.
What formal fallacy is committed by the following argument? "Either Bertrand Russell or John Maynard Keynes taught at Cambridge. But since we know that Russell taught at Cambridge, therefore Keynes did not."
A) denying the antecedent B) affirming the consequent C) affirming a disjunct