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."Doesn't the fact that very few first-rank economists accept Marxist economic ideas suggest to you that there may be something wrong with those ideas?""Not at all. Those economists are all tools of the ruling capitalist parties. I dismiss their views out of hand."
What will be an ideal response?
Ad hominem (personal attack/circumstantial).
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A) the belief that my friend is sometimes rather worried. B) the non-belief about whether my friend is sometimes rather worried. C) the disbelief that my friend is sometimes rather worried.
"'It's obvious that the United States should invade Tabakistan,' said Senator Dithersworth
‘After all, their tin-pot dictator is a snivelling coward, a tyrannical despot whose hands are dripping with the blood of innocent heroes! He dares to insult our great democracy, the land of the free and the home of the brave! Does he imagine that we will stay our hand in the face of his thuggish regime and its record of murder and deceit?'" commits the fallacy of A) appeal to pity B) appeal to force C) appeal to emotion D) ad hominem E) beside the point F) straw man
Which of the following values is not associated with modernism?
a. efficiency b. individualism c. pursuit of eternal truths d. pragmatism
How high do demographers expect the population to be when it peaks and in what year?
a. 2020 at 8 billion c. 2100 at 10 billion b. 2050 at 9 billion d. 2233 at 20 billion