All webs of belief generally consist of beliefs that _______
A. are formed by perception
B. a group of people all accept
C. all fit together
D. bear little relation to each other
C
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Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Availability Heuristic?
(a) "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." (b) "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." (c) "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" (d) "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." (e) "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, ‘For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Philosopher Peter Singer argues for the right to kill handicapped newborn babies. But Singer is a disgusting irreligious crypto Nazi who is sometimes described as the most dangerous man in the world today. Obviously his arguments are nonsense
A) Missing the point. B) Argument against the person, abusive. C) No fallacy. D) Red herring. E) Appeal to unqualified authority.
Anselm's reply to Guanilo is that Guanilo's "Lost Island" argument is beside the point – Anselm's argument works for one concept and one concept only because there can be only one "that-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought."
A. True B. False
Inductive generalizations always proceed from particular premises to a general conclusion.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)