"Mario, Bert, and Max tell more lies than their spouses. Therefore, men tell more lies than women" commits the fallacy of
A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority
A
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Cohen maintains that the principle of equal treatment under the law
a. is a basic moral truth that is grasped by persons everywhere. b. is established by legal agreement. c. is established as God's law. d. is merely a slogan, and not a genuine moral principle. e. is relative to the specific culture in which the claim is made.
The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of a whole is
A) Equivocation B) Dysphemism C) Composition D) Ridicule
Joel Feinberg argues that the way to deal with the absurdity of our predicament in
life is to have __________.
a. a sense of pessimism about life b. a sense of irony c. a sense of betrayal at the hands of the gods d. a sense of unfettered optimism
Hobbes believes that a disease of the commonwealth is the belief that every individual is judge of good and evil actions
Indicate whether the statement is true or false