INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Whatever is bright is intelligent. But the sun is extremely bright. Therefore, the sun is extremely intelligent

A) Division.
B) Begging the question.
C) Equivocation.
D) No fallacy.
E) Amphiboly.


C

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