Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."As the percentage of female drivers has gone up, so has the traffic accident rate, proof right there that women aren't good drivers."
What will be an ideal response?
Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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_________________ is often advanced as Nietzsche's theory of truth
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"Jainism" derives from the Sanskrit term "jina," which means "conqueror.". This title fits the followers of Jainism because they __________
a. are descendants of the great Mamluk invaders b. beat themselves whenever they fail to keep Jain precepts c. seek to win the battle over whatever keeps them trapped in the cycle of death and rebirth d. spread the religion by means of military conquest e. view human beings as conquerors of the rest of the material world
Berkeley's epistemology of subjective idealism is represented by which Latin phrase?
A. errare humanum est B. de gustibus non est disputandum C. cogito ergo sum D. esse est percipi
Why is modus tollens not a fallacy? A. It does not use the second part of the conditional statement. B. It only uses denials of statements rather than affirmations. C. A necessary condition of the respective conditional does not exist so theantecedent of the conditional cannot be true
D. It does not require that any statement be factual.