Joyce has been the evening news anchor at the local television station for the past 10 years; recently, she was transferred to another, less visible position. although station executives deny that there is any connection, joyce believes that she was transferred because of her advancing age. her experience best illustrates:

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy