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Chris is a master of confronting people with whom he disagrees
 
  One of his favorite techniques is to pick the weakest of his opponent's reasons and then to refute it. He thinks that by doing that he has shown that his opponent's claims are mistaken. By using this tactic Chris is actually engaging in __________.
  (a) an appeal to emotion
  (b) a straw man fallacy
  (c) the bandwagon fallacy
  (d) circular reasoning
  (e) an ad hominem attack
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