Use a counterexample to show that the following argument is invalid. (Remember, it is usually best to use terms—or statements—whose interrelations are well known.) "No people whose attention is easily distracted while they are working are people who are keenly interested in their work. No successful people are people whose attention is easily distracted while they are working. So, all successful people are people who are keenly interested in their work."
What will be an ideal response?
No cats are fish. No dogs are cats. So, all dogs are fish.
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A. Deciding how much safety is demanded with respect to a particular product or activity. B. Determining how much safety is attainable and how to attain it in a given endeavor. C. Ascertaining whether a particular instance of a product or activity comes up to standards of safety. D. Lowering the level of risk until it is found, by the ordinary person, to be acceptable.
Milton Friedman argued that CSR ____
A. is harmful to the community B. fails to serve the interests of company's stockholders C. is acceptable if carried out by the government D. would be a passing fad
Who claimed that the skeptic wishes to cure the rashness of the dogmatist?
a. Hume b. Berkeley c. Aristotle d. Empiricus
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Stem cell research is clearly immoral because any activity that destroys human beings is immoral
A) Complex question. B) Appeal to the people. C) No fallacy. D) Appeal to ignorance. E) Begging the question.