INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. All political operatives are disingenuous characters and all clever manipulators are disingenuous characters. Thus, all political operatives are clever manipulators

A) This argument contains a fallacy of weak induction.

B) This argument contains no fallacy.

C) This argument contains a formal fallacy.

D) This argument contains a fallacy of ambiguity.

E) This argument contains a fallacy of relevance.


C

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