All fire-breathing dragons are warm blooded lizards. Therefore, all warm blooded lizards are fire-breathing dragons
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems.
A) Invalid, illicit contrary.
B) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
C) Invalid, existential fallacy.
D) Invalid, illicit conversion.
E) Valid.
D
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lifetime.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Members of the jury, surely defendant Jones is not guilty of kidnapping the little girl. Jones loves children dearly, and during the first ten years of his marriage he prayed every day for a child. Finally, his wife gave birth to a little boy, but then she and the boy were killed in a car accident
A) Slippery slope. B) No fallacy. C) Appeal to pity. D) Appeal to the people. E) Appeal to force.
Which of the following economic systems did not exist prior to the industrial revolution?
A. feudalism B. totalitarianism C. capitalism D. democracy
According to deconstruction theory, everything is a text and texts are continually being
reinterpreted.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.