INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Whatever is dull is stupid. This knife is extremely dull. Therefore, this knife is extremely stupid
A) Amphiboly.
B) Begging the question.
C) Equivocation.
D) No fallacy.
E) Composition.
C
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himself, but rather what Jesus meant to those who believed in his message.
a. source criticism b. resurrection criticism c. form criticism d. historical-critical
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A) a propositional argument B) a categorical argument
Plato’s believed that there are degrees of reality
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A) False cause. B) Accident. C) Weak analogy. D) No fallacy. E) Hasty generalization.