The Little Blue Reasoning Book: 50 Powerful Principles for Clear and Effective Thinking by Brandon Royal

Author:Brandon Royal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Home Schooling, Educational Psychology, Reference, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Creativity, General, Self-Help, Handbooks & Manuals, Logic, Problems & Exercises, Education, Reasoning
ISBN: 9781897393604
Publisher: Maven Publishing
Published: 2010-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Try one more example: “I gave my pet hamster water every day and he still died.” Giving your pet hamster water each day is a necessary condition for keeping him alive, but it is not a sufficient condition. Obviously, a hamster needs many other things besides water, one of which is food.

“NO-SOME-MOST-ALL” STATEMENTS

Many errors are committed in drawing inferences because ordinary speech is inherently ambiguous. For example, take the four statements below:

I.  No As are Bs

II. All As are Bs

III. Some As are Bs

IV. Most As are Bs

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