"We shouldn't let gays get married. If we do, before you know it, people will be marrying their brothers and sisters, animals, plants, multiple people, inanimate objects-it will be chaos. It will be a mockery of marriage. We can't let that happen." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The fallacy of hasty generalization
B. The fallacy of inconsistency
C. The slippery-slope fallacy
D. The weak analogy fallacy
E. None of the answers are correct
Answer: C
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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. While there is no technology to reduce CO2 from a car's exhaust, we can make cars pollute less by making them
more fuel efficient. By using today's best technology, car makers could dramatically increase the fuel economy of their cars and trucks. In fact, off-the-shelf technology can change the nation's best selling SUV, the Ford Explorer, from a 19 mpg gas guzzler to an efficient 34 mpg vehicle. If we are to make any progress in slowing global warming, we must make our cars go farther on a gallon of gas. Sierra Club, "Global Warming Solutions" A) Argument; conclusion: While there is no technology ... more fuel efficient. B) Nonargument. C) Argument; conclusion: In fact, off-the-shelf technology ... 34 mpg vehicle. D) Argument; conclusion: By using today's best technology ... cars and trucks. E) Argument; conclusion: If we are to make any progress ... a gallon of gas.
Assess the following as probably true, as probably false, as requiring further documentation before judgment, or as a claim that cannot properly be evaluated. Consider both the nature of the claim and the source.Huddie Ledbetter ("Leadbelly") was not only a writer and performer of songs but also an unusually powerful man. Alan Lomax, the historian of American folk music, wrote that "in the Texas Penitentiary he was the number one man in the number one gang on the number one farm in the state-the man who could carry the lead row in the field for 12 or 14 hours a day under the broiling July and August sun." He could pick a bale of cotton in a day-that's 500 pounds!-Adapted from liner notes to the record Leadbelly (Everest recording FS-202)
What will be an ideal response?
Moral realism could be established by
a. the outcome of a single experiment b. investigations carried out at the molecular level c. a paradigm shift d. demonstrating its effectiveness as a plausible productive theory
St. Thomas Aquinas' Five Arguments for God's existence are:
1. a priori. 2. a posteriori. 3. dependent on knowledge of the Bible. 4. dependent on knowledge of Greek culture.