INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Fred's argument in favor of lowering the gasoline tax is totally absurd. Fred is a complete loser who has never held a responsible job, and in his darker moments he abuses animals and torments small children
A) Begging the question.
B) No fallacy.
C) Suppressed evidence.
D) Argument against the person, abusive.
E) False dichotomy.
D
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The one feature that made Copernicus’s theory superior to the traditional view was that
a. it reduced the number of epicycles in the solar system. b. his contemporaries believed it was more consistent with the Bible. c. it predicted events that could not be predicted on the old theory. d. it explained facts that the old theory could not explain.
James Mill, John Stuart Mill's father, believed that at birth
A) all minds are the same B) all minds are different C) some people are doomed to be irrational D) males are mentally different from females
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each multiple choice question. Given the categorical proposition "All Emmy winners are celebrities." If both the quality and the quantity are changed, the resulting proposition is:
A) No Emmy winners are people who are not celebrities. B) All people who are not celebrities are people who are not Emmy winners. C) No Emmy winners are celebrities. D) Some Emmy winners are celebrities. E) Some Emmy winners are not celebrities.
According to Descartes, the first step in a careful investigation of the world begins with:
1. doubt. 2. analysis. 3. synthesis. 4. repetition.