Which excerpt from the text is an example of fallacious reasoning? "Perhaps I was lucky, too, that I had no money. We have grown to think that the misfortune is in not having it." "And if your honor shall doom them to die it will be because they are the sons of the rich." "The nurse, strict and jealous and watchful, gave him one kind of books-by night he would steal off and read the other." "And yet there are men who seriously say that for what nature has done, for what life has done, for what training has done, take the boys' lives."

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Lena Garrison

23 July, 10:24

Which excerpt from the text is an example of fallacious reasoning? "Perhaps I was lucky, too, that I had no money. We have grown to think that the misfortune is in not having it." "And if your honor shall doom them to die it will be because they are the sons of the rich." "The nurse, strict and jealous and watchful, gave him one kind of books-by night he would steal off and read the other." "And yet there are men who seriously say that for what nature has done, for what life has done, for what training has done, take the boys' lives."

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Sullivan Serrano · Answer 1

The correct choice is the second one.

This is an example of fallacious reasoning because the connections among honor, people dying, and people dying because they are rich are unclear and generally unrelated. This idea would have to be more thoroughly explained in order to appear logical.