What group appeals to Native Americans because its members believe that Native Americans are children of the lost tribes of Israel and that Jesus preached in the Americas after his resurrection?
a. Mormons
b. Jehovah’s Witnesses
c. Catholic missionaries
d. Jews
Answer: a
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. The FBI and the CIA failed to prevent the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Therefore, these government agencies should be abolished immediately
A) Missing the point. B) Red herring. C) False cause. D) No fallacy. E) Hasty generalization.
"There is no single dancer in this ballet who is amateurish. Therefore, it is not the case that this ballet is amateurish" commits the fallacy of
A) slippery slope B) equivocation C) amphiboly D) composition E) division
For the following, try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument. Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and, sometimes, an extra nonmoral claim as well. The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim.Galileo's hypothesis should be suppressed. The biblical account in Ecclesiastes clearly states that the sun rises and sets and hastens to the place where it will rise again.
What will be an ideal response?
"If Russia is a super power, then it has agents operating in other countries. If it has agents operating in other countries, it is still an enemy of the United States
Thus if Russia is a super power, it is still an enemy of the United States" is A) modus ponens B) modus tollens C) contraposition D) disjunctive syllogism E) hypothetical syllogism