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the fallacy of begging the question is committed when an arguer states or assumes as a premise the very thing he or she is trying to prove the conclusion ?

• true

• false

the premise in the argument " Felix is parrot. So Felix has feathers. " is

• negatively relevant to the conclusion

• positively relevant to the conclusion

A fallacy is an argument that contains at least one false premise

• true

• false

identify the possibly manipulative emotive word in the following description: The president made several thoughtful recommendations to the house budget committee

• thoughtful

• possibly

• emotive

• description

Syntactical ambiguity (amphiboly) results from faulty sentence structure

• true

• false

the premise in the argument " figure X is a triangle. so, figure X is a square. " is

• negatively relevant to the conclusion

• irrelevant to the conclusion

• relevant to the conclusion

Emotive language is precise, neutral, and objective

• true

• false

A vague word typically divides things into three classes: those things which thee word clearly applies, those things to which it clearly does not apply and ?

• those things to which it may or may not apply

• it may apply

Which of the responses below is an overgeneral answer to the following question? highway patrolman to driver: just how fast do you think we where driving

• less than 150 miles

• more than 150 miles

identify the euphemism in the following statement : though there remain a good number of underprivileged families in our nation.

• underprivileged families

• good number

• nation

• remain