If in answering your question about how people reason, your professor uses the

terms "epistemological" and "ontological," and you have no idea what those two terms
mean, the professor may be committing

(a) a fallacy in reasoning.
(b) a fallacy of appeal.
(c) a fallacy in language use.
(d) All of the above


C

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