Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage."We can't close the farmers' market. It's a tradition in this town."

What will be an ideal response?


Mistaken appeal to common practice (tradition).

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Upon his return to Jerusalem, for how many days did Ezra read the Torah aloud to its inhabitants?

A. two days B. five days C. seven days D. ten days

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Socrates asks whether things are good

because they are approved by the gods or whether the gods approve of them because they are good. To say that actions are good just because they are willed or approved by the gods or God seems to make morality arbitrary.

What will be an ideal response?

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__________ helps human beings to understand their world, according to Joseph Campbell

a. Allegory b. Myth c. Parable d. Scripture

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The job of the ego is to satisfy in socially acceptable ways:

a. the superego b. instinctual drives c. the Oedipus complex d. the formation of society

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