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."When [Nidal] Ayyad [convicted of conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993] complained that 'human rights advocates' had not monitored his treatment during months of detention, [U.S. District Judge Kevin T.] Duffy interjected: 'Did human rights organizations monitor the people whom you killed?'"-Robert L. Jackson, in the Los Angeles Times
What will be an ideal response?
Duffy commits an ad hominem.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement?
a. Adam Smith defends capitalism by appealing to the idea of a natural, moral right to property. b. Adam Smith denies that human beings are, by nature, acquisitive creatures. c. A common defense of capitalism is the argument that people have a fundamental moral right to property and that our capitalist system is simply the outcome of this natural right. d. Utilitarians oppose capitalism in principle.
Although the majority of this court said they were not taking any position on whether
homosexual conduct was right or wrong, the dissenters said their decision was “tantamount to a constitutionally prescribed symbol of inferiority.”
What will be an ideal response?The definition "'Roam' means wander" is an example of:
A) A legal definition. B) An ostensive definition. C) A synonymous definition. D) An etymological definition. E) A precising definition.
To whom is Nietzsche referring when he parodies the claim, "What deserves respect in me is that I can obey, and you ought not to be different from me"?
a. Plato b. All of these choices c. Kant d. Aristotle