Logical Reasoning

PT6 · S3 · Q16 An ancient Pavonian text describes

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An ancient Pavonian text describes how an army of one million enemies of Pavonia stopped to drink at a certain lake and drank the lake dry.

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.

16.

Which one of the following is a questionable technique used by the students to reach their conclusion?

  1. making a generalization about historical

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. ignoring available, potentially useful counterevidence

    Trap

    12% picked this

  3. rejecting a hypothesis because it

    Trap

    0% picked this

  4. considering people and locations whose

    Trap

    4% picked this

  5. Correct

    taking evidence that a text

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    77% picked this

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