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neoreaves
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All too many weaklings are also cowards, and few cowards fail to be fools. Thus there must be at least one person who is both a weakling and a fool.
The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that of which of the following?
a) all weasels are carnivores and no carnivores fail to be non-herbivores, so some weasels are non-herbivores.
b) few moralists have the courage to act according to the principles they profess, and few saints have the ability to articulate the principles by which they live, so it follows that few people can both act like saints and speak like moralists.
c) some painters are dancers, since some painters are musicians, and some musicians are dancers.
d) if an act is virtuous then it is autonomous, for acts are not virtuous unless they are free and acts are not free unless they are autonomous.
e) a majority of voting population favors a total ban, but no one who favors a total ban is opposed to stiffer tariffs, so at least one voter is opposed to stiffer tariffs.
The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that of which of the following?
a) all weasels are carnivores and no carnivores fail to be non-herbivores, so some weasels are non-herbivores.
b) few moralists have the courage to act according to the principles they profess, and few saints have the ability to articulate the principles by which they live, so it follows that few people can both act like saints and speak like moralists.
c) some painters are dancers, since some painters are musicians, and some musicians are dancers.
d) if an act is virtuous then it is autonomous, for acts are not virtuous unless they are free and acts are not free unless they are autonomous.
e) a majority of voting population favors a total ban, but no one who favors a total ban is opposed to stiffer tariffs, so at least one voter is opposed to stiffer tariffs.