INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. If TV programs become more inane, then viewers will be bored even further. Viewers will be bored even further. Therefore, TV programs will become even more inane
A) This argument contains no fallacy.
B) This argument contains a formal fallacy.
C) This argument contains a fallacy of weak induction.
D) This argument contains a fallacy of ambiguity.
E) This argument contains a fallacy of illicit transference.
B
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