Select the fallacy or bad argument technique which occurs in the following argument: If it's raining, it's good weather for fishing. It's great weather for fishing, so it must be raining.
A) Tu quoque
B) Fallacy of affirming the antecedent
C) Deriving ought from is
D) Fallacy of affirming the consequent

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This is an example of the fallacy of affirming the consequent, which occurs when someone assumes that if antecedent A leads to consequent B, then the occurrence of B means that A must be true as well. In this case, the argument is assuming that if it's raining, then it's good weather for fishing, and then assuming that if it's good weather for fishing, it must be raining, which is not necessarily true.

Select the Fallacy or Bad Argument Technique Which Occurs in the Following