INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Sylvia is a wonderful ice skater. But every ice skater is a person. Therefore, Sylvia is a wonderful person

A) Amphiboly.

B) Composition.

C) Equivocation.

D) Division.

E) No fallacy.


C

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