Chris is a master of confronting people with whom he disagrees
One of his favorite techniques is to pick the weakest of his opponent's reasons and then to refute it. He thinks that by doing that he has shown that his opponent's claims are mistaken. By using this tactic Chris is actually engaging in __________.
(a) an appeal to emotion
(b) a straw man fallacy
(c) the bandwagon fallacy
(d) circular reasoning
(e) an ad hominem attack
b
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a. the intrusion of a foreign object b. bitterness of spirit c. a person's wandering d. envy or jealousy
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a) therapeutic abortion b) voluntary abortion c) selective reduction d) partial birth abortion
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a) that a square has four sides. b) the necessity of his own existence. c) the necessity of God’s existence. d) that he is dreaming