Logical Reasoning

PT7 · S4 · Q9 Student representative: Our university, in

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Student representative: Our university, in expelling a student who verbally harassed his roommate, has erred by penalizing the student for doing what he surely has a right to do: speak his mind!

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 that the dean of students uses in attempting to refute the student representative?

  1. challenging the student representative’s knowledge

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. invoking a fallacious distinction between

    Trap

    12% picked this

  3. Correct

    misdescribing the student representative’s position,

    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.

    82% picked this

  4. questioning the motives of the

    Trap

    5% picked this

  5. relying on a position of

    Trap

    0% picked this

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