"After reading a newspaper headline, SHIPS TO GET VOMITING BUGS GUIDE, (which noted the availability on cruise ships of pamphlets warning travelers about bugs that cause nausea), one passenger inferred that it was the insects themselves giving the
advice and vowed never go on a cruise again" commits the fallacy of A) slippery slope B) equivocation C) amphiboly D) composition E) division
C
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Muhammad's wife was
A. Younger than him B. Older than him C. Same age as him
In the late 1980s members of the Muslim Brotherhood formed the __________ movement, which is committed to the armed liberation of Palestine from occupation by the State of Israel
a. Al-Qaeda b. Hamas c. Hezballah d. Taliban e. Wahhabi
Suppose that a sociologist notices a correlation between the rate of personal bankruptcy filings and the suicide rate. As the bankruptcy rate increases, the suicide rare increases, and vice versa. The sociologist concludes that personal bankruptcy is a cause of suicide. What method did the sociologist use in drawing this conclusion?
A) The method of concomitant variation. B) The method of agreement. C) The method of difference. D) The method of residues. E) The joint method of agreement and difference.
In Samuel Butler's Erewhon, people who commit crimes are
A. stoned to death. B. executed by the police without a trial. C. put on public display at the zoo. D. treated in hospitals. E. enslaved by the families of the victims.