FAULTY REASONING/LOGIC

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3 rd Type of Faulty Logic:Self-Contradiction• DEFINITION: The writer states a position thatcontradicts an earlier stated premise.• EXAMPLE: As Mayor, my top priority will beimproving education. So my first act of officewill be to cut funding for our public schools.• EXPLANATION: Cutting public schoolfunding contradicts the mayor’s firststatement that improving education will be histop priority.
4 th Type of Faulty Logic:False Causality• DEFINITION: This occurs when two eventshappen at the same time, and an assumptionis made that one event causes the other.• EXAMPLE: Our house was burglarized rightafter that new family moved in next door.• EXPLANATION: This statement attributes afalse cause (new family next door) to theeffect (the burglary).
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Page 19 and 20: • THE ANSWER: Oversimplification
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Page 27 and 28: • THE ANSWER: Circular Reasoning
Page 29 and 30: • THE ANSWER: Overgeneralization
Page 31 and 32: • THE ANSWER: Circular Reasoning
Page 33 and 34: • THE ANSWER: Self-Contradictory
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