Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."Being overweight can't be all that bad for you. Eighty percent of the population over 25 is overweight."
What will be an ideal response?
Mistaken appeal to popularity.
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a. submission b. revelation c. completion d. dominance
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Nobody has ever seen Mr. Albie walk without crutches. We conclude that Mr. Albie needs crutches to walk
A) Appeal to pity. B) False cause. C) Appeal to ignorance. D) Begging the question. E) No fallacy.
According to Kant, people are to be treated:
a. as means to ends. b. as ends in and of themselves. c. as all rational agents should be. d. "as ends in and of themselves" and "as means to ends." e. "as ends in and of themselves" and "as all rational agents should be."
In a straw-man argument, the premises reject a view by means of
A) attacking the person who holds the view. B) representing what that view actually is. C) misrepresenting what that view actually is.