What type of logical error in making a causal statement is illustrated by the statement below? "Members of the Ku Klux Klan dislike black people because they are highly prejudiced against Blacks."
A) tautology
B) ecological fallacy
C) reductionism
D) teleology

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The statement is a tautology because it essentially repeats the same idea in different words without providing a real cause for the dislike; it says that members of the Ku Klux Klan dislike black people because they are prejudiced against black people, which does not explain why the prejudice exists in the first place but merely restates it.

What Type of Logical Error in Making a Causal Statement