List three logical fallacies. Explain why they are fallacies and give examples of fallacious statements with regard to moral problems.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. No headless horsemen are keen sighted riders. Therefore, no keen sighted riders are headless horsemen

A) Invalid, illicit contrary. B) Valid. C) Invalid, illicit conversion. D) Invalid, illicit contraposition. E) Invalid, existential fallacy.

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Having the mindset that disposes us to engage our thinking skills as best as we can is the "eager"  part of the phrase "skilled and eager to think."  Describe this eagerness in terms of the positive disposition toward critical thinking

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Whose research in science and society has sustained the idea that technoscientific knowledge stabilizes in society?

a. Renè von Schomberg c. Sheila Jasanoff b. John Rawls d. Isaac Asimov

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The definition "'Child' means, for purposes of buying a ticket for admission to the Bijou Theater, a person less than eleven years old" is an example of:

A) A definition by subclass. B) An operational definition. C) A lexical definition. D) A demonstrative definition. E) A precising definition.

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