'Supporters of the ABC Political Party are against gun control, and Republicans are also against gun control, so some Republicans must be supporters of the ABC Political Party.' Identify the fallacy in the above argument.

AAffirming the consequent

BDenying the antecedent

CAd hominem

DUndistributed middle ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) Undistributed middle

Explanation

The shared predicate against gun control is the middle term, and it stays undistributed in both premises.

Both premises are affirmative, so the middle is the predicate of an affirmative and never distributed.

A valid syllogism requires the middle term to be distributed at least once.

Since it never is, the link between Republicans and ABC supporters is not established.

This failure is the fallacy of the undistributed middle.

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