Identify the kind of logical fallacy found in the following sentence. I knew my blind date would be horrible when the cat coughed up a hairball in my shoe while I was getting ready. A. reversing causal direction B. slippery slope C. cherry picking D. post hoc/false cause

C. cherry picking

Explanation:

Cherry-picking: In psychology, the term "cherry-picking" is described as a phenomenon in which an individual tends to suppress specific evidence or a mistaken belief of some incomplete evidence, and thus he or she acts of pointing out particular data or cases that tend to confirm specific things whereas ignoring an important part of the related case or data and it often tends to contradict the same. However, it refers to the process of false selective attention.

In the question above, the correct answer is option C.

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gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job