According to your textbook, the fallacy of appeal to novelty assumes

A. that unique examples are superior to familiar ones.
B. that something new is automatically better than something old.
C. that unfamiliar evidence will be most persuasive to listeners.
D. All of these answers are correct.
E. Both that unfamiliar evidence will be most persuasive to listeners and that something new is automatically better than something old.


Answer: B

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