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My George is my 15 year old step-brother Zach. He is in 9th grade and is in honors math and English, therefore he thinks that he is incredibly smart given that he is taking honors courses, which I didn’t explain to him that is an invalid argument and just because you are in honors classes doesn’t mean that you are automatically smart. Him thinking that he was smart just because he was in honors classes is what made me suspect him to be a George. To further my studies of him, I gave him a simple test to evaluate his “georgeness”.
I began by providing the argument, if all bobcats are animals and all pets are animals, does this mean that all bobcats are pets? I then asked him if this was a valid form of an argument and he exclaimed, …show more content…

All of his answers were the same as the first testing, so I am either a poor logic teacher or he is destined to be a George. I just went through the misconceptions and explained them without tricks and told him how valid arguments don’t need true conclusions because validity isn’t dependent on the outcome of a certain situation. Also, the misconception that every argument with a true conclusion is valid is false because in a situation, something comes out true doesn’t mean that it will come out true every other time you repeat the situation. Finally, the misconception that no conclusion follows correctly from false premises is horribly wrong because, you can have false premises for any type of conclusion (false or true) to follow. For example, All wood is purple and all trees are purple, therefore all wood is tree. This is a true conclusion that came from false premises. After laying the definitions on the table, my George seamed to understand why the misconceptions aren’t true. He centralized his understanding around the gambler’s fallacy which is okay I think.
In the the final analysis of my George, I don’t think he really understands the difference between correct reasoning and drawing a correct conclusion because he got the same scores on the tests. I am to blame because I was not a very good logic teacher and I had to read straight out of the text book for him to start

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