Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Toads do cause warts. People have known that for centuries.

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Ayn Rand extols selfishness as a virtue

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The three kinds of evil, according to Leibniz, are

a. jealousy, lust, envy. b. personal, social, theological. c. metaphysical, physical, moral. d. direct, indirect, mediated.

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Heraclitus was a Chinese sage

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Helene Cixous recognizes that social structures are inherent in language, so she writes at the limits of language in a style called _____ to mitigate the damage done by "masculinist" structures in philosophical writing.

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