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."The San Jose Mercury News made some explosive and unsubstantiated charges in articles earlier this year suggesting the Central Intelligence Agency helped start the crack epidemic in the United States. The CIA has often behaved scandalously over the years, but no one, including the Mercury News, has produced credible evidence the CIA organized or took part in drug dealing by the Contras or that the rebels flooded Los Angeles with drugs to finance their war against the Sandinistas."-New York Times
What will be an ideal response?
This may look like a case of misplaced burden of proof fallacious reasoning: There has been no evidence presented that the CIA did help start the crack epidemic, therefore it is safe to conclude that it did not help start it. But there is no such fallacious reasoning going on, because in fact the burden of proof lies on the Mercury News in the first place. The affirmative side always gets the burden of proof in cases like this.
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Descartes’s first proof for the existence of God was based on the principle that
a. without God, life would be meaningless. b. the physical world had to have a first cause. c. the world exhibits design and purpose. d. a cause must be at least as great as its effect.
The god Rama is frequently paired with
A. Devi. B. Ganesha. C. Sita. D. Lakshmi.
The Last ______ occurs at the end of time
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).