INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. The sign on the restaurant wall says "No Smoking Rules Enforced." Therefore, we can probably smoke, since the smoking rules aren't enforced

A) Missing the point.

B) Appeal to ignorance.

C) Amphiboly.

D) No fallacy.

E) Equivocation.


C

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