?:Consider the following extended argument:

    Well, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a racist only if he knowingly accepted disproven beliefs about the differences between the races; and he did. Hence, he was a racist. In fact, he'd still be a racist if he was alive today. Since he rarely changed his beliefs.

    No

    HINT: A Hypothetical Syllogism is a three-line argument that logically relies upon a conditional statement. While this sub-argument's conclusion is a condition statement (i.e., an If-Then statement), the premise is not a conditional statement. Therefore, the argument does not logically rely upon a condition, and the argument is not a Hypothetical Syllogism. In addition, this argument is not a syllogism, since it has only one premise.

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