INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. We know for certain that no armadillos are aardvarks. It is therefore equally certain that no aardvarks are armadillos
A) Begging the question.
B) Weak analogy.
C) No fallacy.
D) Hasty generalization.
E) Equivocation.
C
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