Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."Everyone knows that sports is the best way to maintain physical health."
What will be an ideal response?
Mistaken appeal to common belief (popularity).
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Explain and evaluate the philosophy of radical feminism, with reference to Andrea Dworkin's views in her book Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females.
What will be an ideal response?
INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. If Ken Burns makes historical documentaries, then he enhances our knowledge of the past. Ken Burns does make historical documentaries. Therefore he enhances our knowledge of the past
A) Deductive, valid. B) Inductive, weak. C) Deductive, invalid. D) Inductive, strong. E) Deductive, cogent.
The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, according to the Westminster Confession of Faith, is
a. our interpretations of Scripture b. pastors c. the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture d. the majority opinion in the church
James found his theory of truth in the unpublished work of:
a. Leibniz b. Peirce c. Henry James d. Nietzsche e. Socrates