Select the fallacy that best fits the description given. This fallacy occurs in an argument that uses a nonrepresentative sample as support for a statistical claim about an entire population.

Determine which formal fallacy is committed (which rule is broken) in the following syllogism under the modern interpretation. No cats are dogs. Some lovely animals are not dogs. Some lovely animals are not cats.

Given the false statement below and assuming A and B exist, apply subalternation to determine the resulting statement and its truth value. Some non-A are not B.             (F)                     Subalternation No non-A are B. (Und.) Some non-A are B. (T) Some non-B are not A. (F) No non-A are B. (F) Some non-A are B. (Und.)

Which answer best represents the informal fallacy being committed, if there is any, in the following argument? “You must take the final exam. Otherwise, you will fail this course.”

In the previous question (#52), if the conclusion is “Some S are P”, then the corresponding categorical syllogism is____ under the traditional interpretation.

Which answer best represents the informal fallacy being committed, if there is any, in the following argument? “The vast majority of car accidents occur within twenty miles of one’s home. Apparently it is much more dangerous to drive close to home than far away from home.”

Use the following proposition to answer these questions: “No dinosaurs are tap dancers.”   1. Which of the following is true of the proposition? 2. Which of the following is a valid immediate conclusion?

What is the mood and figure of the following syllogism? “No hammers are surgical instruments. No blunt instruments are hammers. So, some blunt instruments are surgical tools.”

If the conclusion of a valid categorical syllogism is an E-proposition, then the minor term must be distributed in the minor premise.

On the modern interpretation, if an E-proposition is false, the corresponding I-proposition is: