INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Ginger, I saw you outside the opera house the other night. Tell me, why don't you enjoy ordinary musical events, like normal people do?
A) Begging the question.
B) Argument against the person, circumstantial.
C) Appeal to ignorance.
D) No fallacy.
E) Complex question.
E
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A. The instantial constant occurs in the assumption. B. The instantial constant occurs in any line of the proof. C. The instantial constant occurs in the last line of the proof. D. The conclusion of the argument is a conditional.
In 1868, Mutsuhito imported European and American experts to build up the governmental, military, and educational systems according to Western models that marked a turning point in Japanese history known as the
A. Meiji Restoration. B. Japanese Spirit. C. Shinto Scholarly Revival. D. Mootori Age.
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A. The source is known to be unreliable. B. The source is not an authority on the subject at issue. C. The claim is false or improbable. D. The source is biased. E. None of the answers are correct.
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What will be an ideal response?