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9B. Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit:i. The moon was full on Thursday evening. ii. On Friday morning I overslept. iii. Therefore, the full moon caused me to oversleep.(a) weak analogy(b) Untestability(c) False cause(d) hasty generalization(e) accident

10B. Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit: “Single mothers raising sons have a difficult time controlling them and the sons often end up incarcerated. Single mothers are the cause of the incarceration of their sons.”(a) straw man(b) Untestability(c) False cause(d) Slippery slope(e) hasty generalization

11B. Which fallacy does the following statement or argument commit:i. An atheist I met made some irrational remarks.ii. Therefore, all atheists are irrational.(a) Hasty generalization(b) red herring(c) Slippery slope(d) Untestability(e) accident

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9.B The correct answer is - C

The following statement has the fallacy of false cause.

i. The moon was full on Thursday evening.

ii. On Friday morning I overslept.

iii. Therefore, the full moon caused me to oversleep.

False Cause fallacy is when a connection is formed just because the event occur in correlation. In the above example, just because the events occur in a temporal succession, a causal connection is present.

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