Logical Reasoning

PT5 · S3 · Q9 The journalistic practice of fabricating

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The journalistic practice of fabricating remarks after an interview and printing them within quotation marks, as if they were the interviewee’s own words, has been decried as a form of unfair misrepresentation.

Your task

Describe the reasoning error the argument actually commits.

Common trap

Answers that name a real logical flaw the argument doesn't actually make.

Winning move

Articulate the gap in the reasoning yourself, then match it to the choice that describes that gap.

9.

Which one of the following is a questionable technique used in the argument?

  1. Answering an exaggerated charge by

    Trap

    2% picked this

  2. Claiming that the prestige of

    Trap

    7% picked this

  3. Correct

    Offering as an adequate defense

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Flaw · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    64% picked this

  4. Concluding that a practice is

    Trap

    12% picked this

  5. Using the opponent’s admission that

    Trap

    15% picked this

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