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When Chris learned that his friend, who is also a manager, like Chris, has been sentenced to prison for stealing from their employer, Chris told his friend, "Everyone who is in prison can still be free, for true freedom is the knowledge of one's situation. The more one knows about one's self, the more one is truly free." By making this argument Chris is actually engaging in __________.

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A playing with words fallacy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Chris ideology or reasoning is baseless because it has no or little evidence. The people that uses the word "fallacy'' or gives fallacious statement are mostly philosophers.

What I am trying to say in the paragraph above is that Chris only jumped into conclusion without any giving enough reasons to back up his argument and that is the definition of fallacy; reasoning with no or little evidence.

In phylosophy, the concept of fallacy brings about what is known as say systemic error.

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