8: The elements of inductive reasoning include
sensory observation and inferencing
enumeration and pattern recognition
analogous reasoning and causal reasoning
all of the above
9: Inspector (to one man who said he was alone in the hotel): I noticed the table is set for four. Man: That’s nothing. My alarm clock’s set for eight. [from A Night at the Opera; Marx Brothers] The man’s comment, if not in a fictional setting and funny, could best be considered to belong in the following catergory:
trickery with language
trickery with emotions
trickery by distraction
trickery by time alteration
10: Jerry Lewis plays a temporary ship commander in "Don’t Give up the Ship!" He says to his men, "I want a tight ship. For a tight ship is a happy ship. And a happy ship is a tight ship." This is a funny example of
circular reasoning.
sloppy talking.
two wrongs make a right.
no fallacy we know of
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