“You ought to keep in touch more.”
a. fallacy of causation
b. fallacy of shoulds
c. fallacy of overgeneralization
d. fallacy of perfection
e. fallacy of helplessness
Answer: b
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a. True b. False
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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to Iraq, he referred to the action as a "surge". Opponents of the increase referred to it as an "escalation," a term associated with painful memories of the war in Vietnam. This use of language, by both sources, illustrates _____. A) how politicians behave unethically when they interject opinion into debate B) how inconsistencies, when present in debate, complicate efforts to resolve them C) how qualifiers must be justified in order to not mislead listeners D) how definitions can be persuasive, not merely informative