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Read the sentence. a dog bit my sister; all dogs are vicious. which logical fallacy is used in the sentence? hasty generalization red herring ad hominem attack circular reasoning

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A. hasty generalization.


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This is a hasty generalization.  A hasty generalization is when an assumption of something as a whole is assumed with incomplete data.  In this case, only one dog has been examined for data, and it is assumed all dogs do the same.
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