"A fan of the Tour of France is reported to have said that Armstrong used performance-boosting drugs. Therefore, he used performance-boosting drugs" commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


E

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