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The council president concludes that Smith’s proposal to prohibit bait-and-switch sales tactics doesn’t merit consideration. As support, the president says that Smith used to own an appliance store that used bait-and-switch sales tactics.

This is a source attack. The president doesn’t say anything about the merit of Smith’s proposal; the only support for the president’s conclusion is the fact that Smith used to engage in the behavior that he is now trying to prohibit.

The president’s argument is a source attack. Based on what the president said, we don’t know anything about the merits of Smith’s proposal. The president dismisses the proposal because of who proposed it, not because of its content.

This is descriptively inaccurate. The stimulus does not include a fact that is incompatible with a claim. The fact given in the argument (the premise about Smith’s past) actually supports the argument’s claim (that Smith’s proposal doesn’t merit consideration).

This distinction is not relevant for the argument. Even if the argument distinguished between deceptive and legitimate sales tactics, the argument would still be flawed because it would still be based on a source attack.

(D) describes circular reasoning, which does not occur in this argument. While the premise offers bad support for the conclusion, the premise and the conclusion are two distinct claims.

This is descriptively inaccurate. The argument does not include an inappropriate generalization based on a limited number of instances; the scope of the argument is limited to Smith’s proposal.

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