'My mother must be visiting, since there is a Mercedes parked outside.' What kind of fallacy does this indicate?
AFallacy of deviation ✓ Correct
BFallacy of contradiction
CFallacy of unestablishment
DFallacy of rebuttal
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of deviation
Explanation
A Mercedes parked outside is too general a sign to fix on the mother's visit.
Many people own or drive a Mercedes, so the reason points in many directions.
The same evidence would equally support quite different conclusions.
A reason that wanders like this fails to establish one definite result.
An inconclusive, straying reason is the fallacy of deviation, savyabhichara.
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