Which of the Following Arguments Commits the Fallacy of Appeal

question 140

Multiple Choice

Which of the following arguments commits the fallacy of appeal to force?

• A)Children require discipline and spanking is a particularly effective form of discipline, so children need spanking.
• B)If that's your view on abortion, then we can't be friends anymore.
• C)Since Wales is part of Great Britain, and Great Britain is an island, I am forced to agree that Wales is an island nation.
• D)Either magnetism or gravity made the disk move, and we can rule out magnetism, so it must have been gravity.
• E)The sanctions against our enemy have not been effective in undermining its regime, so the next logical step will be war.

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Definitions:

==

An equality operator used in programming languages to compare two values, returning true if equal and false otherwise.

Nested If

A conditional statement within another conditional statement, allowing for more complex decision-making paths.

If-Else

A conditional statement in programming that executes a block of code if a specified condition is true, and another block if the condition is false.

Switch Statement

A control statement in programming that allows for the execution of different parts of code based on the value of a variable or expression.