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Identify the fallacy in the statement: 'People who lack arrogance are intelligent, because intelligent people do not have arrogance.'

AEquivocation
BFallacy of division
CBegging the question ✓ Correct
DFallacy of composition
Correct answer: (C) Begging the question
Explanation

The argument begs the question by assuming what it sets out to prove.

The conclusion is that those who lack arrogance are intelligent.

The offered reason is that intelligent people do not have arrogance.

This reason merely restates the conclusion in converted form rather than supporting it.

The premise and the conclusion say the same thing, so the argument moves in a circle.

Taking the point to be proved as its own ground is begging the question.

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