"Since the public officials accused of involvement with a money-laundering scheme have failed to provide conclusive evidence that they were not involved in the operation, it is reasonable to suspect their involvement" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


D

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a. true b. false

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The field of theological study that attempts to interpret scripture is

a. historiography. b. criticism. c. hermeneutics. d. exegesis.

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Kant believed that we should always act

A) in such a way that we can will the maxim of our action to be a local law. B) in a way that treats success as an end in itself, never merely as means. C) in a way that would be universally unacceptable to all rational beings. D) in a way that moral beings give the moral law.

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