"According to Wayne Gretzsky, Carmen is the most difficult opera to perform, therefore it must be a very difficult opera" is an example of a/an ____fallacy
A. Ad Hominem
B. Strawman
C. Appeal to Inappropriate Authority
D. Irrelevant Reason
C
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a. Argument b. Not an argument because there are no claims or only one claim. c. Not an argument because none of the claims offer a reason for the other. d. Not an argument because the reasons explain rather than prove the other claims.
If someone says, "What Ralph said about being honest can not be right because he is a thief," that person has committed an informal fallacy called __________
a. jumping on the bandwagon b. fallacy of the straw man c. argumentum ad ignorantium d. argumentum ad hominem.
Gwen plays basketball and soccer and has won many awards for the two sports. She thinks she should learn a new sport. She expects to be good at it, given her performance in the other sports. If we don't know which sport she would undertake, would her argument be stronger, weaker, or neither if she had excelled in four sports, rather than two?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
How would Berkeley deal with this question: If a tree fell in a forest an no one was around to hear it, would it make a sound?
What will be an ideal response?