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    Supports→The proposed analogical inference rule (5) is unacceptable as a general rule.

    Any rule that licenses epistemically inert inferences in even one class of cases fails the normative standard required of a general inference rule, by the same logic that defeats affirming the consequent.

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    Key Terms

    Affirming the Consequent(Identified as the fallacy instantiated by the advertisement's inference)
    A formal logical fallacy in which one infers the antecedent from the truth of the consequent in a conditional statement
    Epistemically inert(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Unable to tell you anything useful or give you actual knowledge—it just sits there without helping you understand or know anything.
    Inference rule(as used in logic)
    A specific method or set of steps you follow to draw a conclusion from the information you have.
    Normative standard(as used in ethics)
    A rule or principle that tells us what *should* be the case, what's right or wrong—not just what *is* the case.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)

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    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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