Evidence for a certain claim must amount to ________

A. testimony for the claim's truth
B. support that anyone could accept
C. establishing the existence of traces
D. a proof that a certain story took place


B

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The attribution of human thoughts and emotions onto the nonhuman universe is the fallacy of

a. equivocation b. composition c. anthropomorphism d. wishful thinking

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.Revenge of the Nerds was really a funny movie. I know because I was a nerd myself, and that's really the way it was!

What will be an ideal response?

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.The article "Race and the Death Penalty" is just another liberal diatribe aimed at convincing people that there is racial bias in capital punishment. The whole point of the so-called statistics it mentions is to get people to be against the death penalty.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Buddhism is focused on the goal of _______

A. being free of one's desires B. knowing ultimate reality C. relieving other people's suffering D. disbelieving in God

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