Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
Name the fallacy in: 'All men who understand women are potentially perfect husbands. All potentially perfect husbands are men of infinite patience. Therefore, some men of infinite patience are men who understand women.'
AExclusive premises
BExistential fallacy ✓ Correct
CIllicit major
DUndistributed middle
Correct answer: (B) Existential fallacy — This is the existential fallacy, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★This is the existential fallacy, so that is the answer.
★Both premises are universal, asserting no actual existence.
★Yet the conclusion is particular, claiming that some such men exist.
★Deriving an existence-claiming particular from two universals is illegitimate.
★This leap to existence is the existential fallacy.
★So the answer is existential fallacy.
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