Welcome to Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Course Sample for Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Let’s begin our study of Logic with one of the informal fallacies most of us have had some experience with. Please turn to a blank page in your Logic notebook and copy the following statements made by Flash, our resident expert in faulty logic:

1. “You should definitely give me an A on this assignment. I’ve had the flu all week, and I crawled to the computer to submit it. I can hardly make it back to bed.”
2. “You should all pitch in and buy me lunch. My poor dog has been lost for a week, and I’m worried sick about him. He can’t hear very well, and he’s afraid of strangers.”
3. “The manager should hire me for this job. If I don’t get it, I won’t be able to take that trip to Aruba I’ve been planning on, and my children will go hungry.”

Each of these examples uses the same type of bad reasoning. Based on your experience and background knowledge, try to find the deceit or faulty logic in each example. What do you notice about the evidence or justification presented in each example? What just doesn’t sound right to you?

Jot down a few notes about the bad reasoning you think these examples have in common. Don’t worry if you’re not sure! Just study each example and look for reasoning that doesn’t make sense to you. It’s a great idea to talk this over with others if you’d like. We’ll discuss the flaws in Flash’s reasoning in the next session. His statements are all based on the same informal fallacy.

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