In five pages a hypothetical scenario is presented to illustrate faulty reasoning and then discusses sound reasoning and the qualities associated with it. One sources is cited in the bibliography.
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workplace for ten particular companies and attempts then to extend that belief to every other company for whom they work. Namely, they have made the analysis that ten of
the companies they work for have no incidents of employee theft. Furthermore, they came to understand that these companies all
require employees to where identification badges. The consulting company then linked these two truisms together and arrived at the conclusion that the wearing of employee identification badges quite obviously
is the reason for no incidents of employee theft. While this may be their opinion, it is an argument based on illogical reasoning and therefore the conclusion which has
been drawn is unreliable as well. What is logic exactly? "The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines logic as "the science of
reasoning, proof, thinking, or inference" (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). Logic is used when people want to better understand something and be able to make a reasonable assumption as to
whether or not something is true (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). There are no laws which govern logic (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). This means that something which is reasoned
to be true may turn out to actually not be true at all (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). Think of Christopher
Columbus and the Earth is flat theory . It sounded good. It made sense. But it just wasnt true. But, thats the nature of logic (Logic
and Fallacies, 2002). You do the best you can with the information which is available at the time (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). The argument of the security