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."Studying economics and finance in college does not make you rich. I don't see any point studying it at all."

What will be an ideal response?


Perfectionist fallacy.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Identify the sample OR population of the following inductive generalization. You may assume that the premises in each of the arguments are true. Students in my classes always seem to do poorly on an exam when I schedule it for the day they return from Spring Break. It's probably the case then that college students generally do poorly on exams that are scheduled for the day they return from Spring

Break. What is sample? a. Students in my classes who do poorly on exams scheduled for the day afterSpring Break b. All students who take exams scheduled for the day after Spring Break c. Students across the university who do poorly on exams scheduled for theday after Spring Break

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In a communist society there are three classes

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The utility principle states that

a. the only thing good in itself is some type of state (e.g. pleasure, happiness, welfare). b. the rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by its consequences. c. an action has utility if it is intrinsically right independent of its consequences. d. the wrong actions are sometimes those that have the best consequences.

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