Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue."I don't believe we ought to believe the so-called 'admissions' of the Liggett and Myers Company. I think the only reason they're now agreeing with tobacco critics about the addictive powers of nicotine and the nicotine-level manipulation by the company is to get themselves off the hook and avoid bigger trouble, even if it means getting the other tobacco companies into bigger trouble."
What will be an ideal response?
Ad hominem (circumstantial).
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."In this book we use the word universe to denote a 'model of the Universe' and avoid making pretentious claims to a true knowledge of the Universe."-Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology
What will be an ideal response?
The identity of the evening and the morning star is only contingent identity
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
A name often used to describe Rorty (and other pragmatists), but which Rorty rejects, is
a. Absolutist. b. Relativist. c. Anarchist. d. Socialist. e. Sophist.