What is an argument?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. This pamphlet from the hospital says I should eat right before surgery. Apparently I should go into the operating room with a full stomach
A) Equivocation. B) Appeal to ignorance. C) Missing the point. D) No fallacy. E) Amphiboly.
"Some politicians are liars" and "Some liars are politicians" are related by
a. obversion. b. conversion. c. contraposition. d. subimplication.
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.Letter to the editor: "In rejoinder to your July 21 editorial, I certainly don't see how you can criticize the striking Springfield Unified School District teachers who carried their own signs. Let us not forget that you endorsed and supported city council members Holt and Donazetti, who not only paraded up and down Main Street with their own placards, but also got young children out of school to parade with them."-North State Record
What will be an ideal response?
In the definition "'Material' means the substance of which something is made or composed" the definiens is:
A) Something is made or composed. B) Substance. C) Material. D) Something. E) The substance of which something is made or composed.