Characterizing ideological reasoning as deductive means that ________

(a) the conclusions of ideological arguments are presented as certain
(b) the premises of ideological arguments are presented as true
(c) the persuasiveness of ideological reasoning is not open to doubt
(d) the validity of the ideological reasoning cannot be questioned


a

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