Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam (04.09.2024) Shift-II
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 — It is begging the question, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★It is begging the question, so that is the answer.
★The premise assumes what the conclusion states.
★'Intelligent people lack arrogance' just restates the claim.
★So the argument assumes its own conclusion.
★This is the begging-the-question fallacy.
★Hence the third option is correct.
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