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Exercise 7

Avg difficulty 2.5

Determine which type of fallacy each argument represents.

Old man Brown claims that he saw a flying saucer in his farm, but he never got beyond the fourth grade in school and can hardly read or write. He is completely ignorant of what scientists have written on the subject, so his report cannot possibly be true.

Lee et al., Math in Society, §1.8 Logical Fallacies, Exercise 7

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