Select the correct answer. Which logical fallacy relies on distracting readers from the original topic by presenting new, irrelevant, and unconnected ideas? A. straw man B. red herring C. hasty generalization D. overstatement E. ad hominem

A

Explanation:

Red herring. This fallacy blames something entirely irrelevant on the cause of something else. E.G. This happened and so did that. Therefore, this caused that.

Both C and D have to do with attacking arguments or people, E is simply aggrandizement, and B is coming to an illogical conclusion.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."