"When I read the Web news headline, ‘Guatemalan and U.S
authorities seize a street value $200m makeshift submarine loaded with Colombian cocaine,' I concluded that drug lords will spare no expense when they buy submarines!" commits the fallacy of A) slippery slope B) equivocation C) amphiboly D) composition E) division
C
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A) Find an example in a newspaper or newsmagazine of a sentence or passage that is too vague for its context. B) Write another version of the sentence or passage so that it is no longer too vague.
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As a lexical definition, Kahlil Gibran's definition of 'poet' as "A bird of unearthly excellence who escapes from his celestial realm and arrives in this world warbling" may be criticized as:
A) Being too narrow. B) Being figurative. C) Being obscure. D) Being too broad. E) Being negative.
Which of the following statements is true about Confucius?
A. He believed that excellence comes partly from the cultivation of one' virtues and intellect. B. He disliked the idea of education because it transmitted the lessons of the past into the present. C. He remained unmarried throughout his life. D. He was convinced that human beings can achieve good, refined, and even great qualities in isolation.
In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar.Marina tells her children not to smoke, but she smokes herself.
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