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This argument or definition most clearly illustrates which fallacy?

 This argument or definition most clearly illustrates which fallacy?

 (For this problem, accept the italicized part as factually true. The fallacy occurs with what this argument does with the facts.) On a full tank of gasoline for each car, on the same roadway under the same

 conditions, and being driven at the same speed by the same driver, car A goes 80 miles farther than does car B. Therefore, car A is more fuel efficient.

  •  Ad hominem

  •  Faulty appeal to tradition

  •  Ad populum

  •  Ad astra

  •  False infinitum

  •  Begging the question


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Answer: Begging the question

Explanation: Here the premise is true and the conclusion is true. It does not leave any question. Here the conclusion is valid. It is not faulty appeal because there is no tradition. Ad populum fallacy is a part of false authority and there is no subject matter mentioned here. On the other hand it is not ad hominem as there is no opposite view against human beings.

Hayet Jeridi answered 2 years ago
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