READING 4.5

In reading 4.5, we use Chapter 6: ‘Crooked and Fallacious Thinking’ and Chapter 7: ‘More to crooked and fallacious thinking’, in critical thinking. The writers of this chapter are Aik, K C and Edmonds, S (1976). This chapter tells about the development of a clear and perceptive outlooks entails the ability to think logically and to recognize and analyze instances of crooked and fallacious thinking. There are several points that included in this chapter, which are transfer device, circular argument, false analogy, equivocation and either-or assumption. In chapter 7, there are more of crooked and fallacious thinking. Much human misunderstanding and blunders arises because many people are not aware of the fact that their trends of thought and thus their communication processes are frequently muddled, illogical and fallacious. In conclusion, it is important to be able to interrogate the logic contained in the argument in a text.