If an argument is valid, then

A) there are no counterexamples to it. B) there are counterexamples to it. C) it is not truth preserving.


A

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A) Tautologous. B) Self-contradictory. C) Contingent. D) Inconsistent. E) Valid.

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Which fallacy is committed by the following categorical syllogism? All cats are soft and furry animals. Some amphibians are not soft and furry animals. So, no cats are amphibians.

A. fallacy of the undistributed middle B. fallacy of the illicit middle C. fallacy of the illicit major D. fallacy of the illicit minor

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The Japanese people

A. adopted the culture of Vietnam for about five hundred years. B. have always enthusiastically adopted foreign cultures. C. rejected the culture of China. D. apparently descended from several immigrant groups that came from the northwest.

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This group blends Christianity and the peyote cult and boasts 225,000 members

a. Sioux Church of North America b. Native American Congress c. Native American Church d. Church of Latter-Day Saints

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