The Fallacious Leap to a Nonnatural Explanation for a Phenomenon

question 8

Multiple Choice

The fallacious leap to a nonnatural explanation for a phenomenon is an example of the fallacy of…

• A) Appeal to ignorance
• B) Begging the question
• C) Straw man
• D) Division

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Null Hypothesis

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