The Statement That "Since a Farmer Will Make More Money

question 120

Multiple Choice

The statement that "since a farmer will make more money if he has a bumper crop means that all farmers would make more money if they all had bumper crops" would be an example of which of the following?

• A)the fallacy that correlation is the same as causation
• B)the fallacy of composition
• C)truth in an obvious form
• D)A and B

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