Practice Exercise 8 A
Faulty Thinking
- Write “logical thinking” beside logical statements. Write
“faulty thinking” beside faulty statements.
Example
I am not going to move my car just because that bossy,
loudmouth police officer tells me to do it.
Name Calling,
Ignoring the Question
- I saw William standing outside the tattoo parlour on Main Street.
He must have a tattoo.
- Melissa explained to the judge that it wasn’t really stealing
when she took the five hundred dollars from the cash register last month,
because she left an I.O.U. note.
- Everyone should take a ten percent wage cut because the company president
said the company’s profits were ten percent lower than expected.
- We should go bungee jumping to celebrate our anniversary because
I know two couples who did that.
- That lazy, coffee-drinking government employee sits all day. That
person wouldn’t know how to do an honest day’s work.
- Janet’s softball team won their first home game, and they lost
their first away game. They will probably win every home game, and they
will probably lose every away game.
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