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The exercise provided a great sense of bad arguments and the various fallacies. The quiz gave examples of fallacious appeals such as questionable authority, common belief; two wrongs do not equal a right, common practice, wishful thinking and indirect consequences. Generally speaking the multiple choice answers were tricky as most of the choices were very similar in content and form. The trick to identifying the correct answer is found in previous reading and looking forward. Key words or the way an answer was structured is what gave the correct answer away. From an overall stand point, the general lesson here is to analyze arguments and dissect them which allows one to determine appropriate factual arguments from ones that are formed
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