Identify which of the following fallacies the following example illustrates. Choose the best answer from the list offered. If abortion were legalized, it would no doubt become more widespread, resulting in a weakening of our respect for life. And what would follow next-assisted suicide? Infanticide?
a. Jumping from Correlation to Cause
b. False Dilemma
c. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
d. Only Game in Town
e. Overlooking a Common Cause
f. Causal Oversimplification
g. Slippery Slope
h.Gambler's Fallacy
e
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A. white lotus. B. clothed-in-sky. C. painfree. D. upper sight.
Construct a truth table to determine whether the following statements are tautologies, contradictions or contingent statements.
1. A ? (A ? B) 2. (A ? B) ? (~A ? ~B) 3. (A ? ~A) ? B 4. (A ? A) ? (B ? ~B) 5. (A ? B) ? (A v B) 6. (A v B) ? (A ? B) 7. (~A ? ~B) ? (~B ? ~A) 8. (A ? B) ? (~B ? ~A) 9. (B v ~B) ? A 10.(A v B) v ~A
How does Descartes explain the fact that we sometimes make errors in judgment?
A. our will is more powerful than our understanding. B. our imagination is more powerful than our will. C. our imagination is more powerful than our understanding. D. our understanding is more powerful than our will.
The goal in moral theory is
A. identifying social trends. B. recognizing abnormal human behavior. C. achieving a reflective equilibrium. D. reconciling faith with reason. E. making novel predictions.