I have the same question. In all of the previous questions, I believe Mehran identifies the flaw by name (e.g. fallacy of division, overlooking counter-evidence, biased opinion, etc.). What is the name of the flaw here?
Emil-Kunkinon October 9 at 12:45AM
I would say that the flaw here is that the argument makes a huge unwarranted assumption: that there are only two potential candidates. I wouldn't worry too much about naming categories of flaws, my view is that it doesn't get us anywhere. Rather, it's more important to be able to describe the flaw in the language of the argument. Here the argument is missing two critical premises: that the sources are indeed right, and that there are no potential candidates other than the two named.
Paytonon January 6 at 07:58AM
In essence, are these questions (and most of the other questions of error in reasoning and fallacy and flawed [in general]) "do not assume" questions that are very context and case-specific? I understand why most of them are wrong, but finding the right answer is extremely difficult when you know what is wrong and must pick between 2-3 answer choices - especially when considering the bizarro method, as so many of them are similar to each other. I know diagramming them would help, but there simply is not enough time to do this when actually testing on my test date. Is there any sort of cheat/easy-elimination method, other than those listed in the previous lesson?
