Sherlock Holmes, the Famous Detective, Notices That All of the Coffee

question 273

Multiple Choice

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, notices that all of the coffee cups in your house have the handles facing to the left. He concludes that you must, therefore, be left-handed. Sherlock has just used

• A)the logical fallacy
• B)deductive reasoning
• C)the justification fallacy
• D)belief bias
• E)inductive reasoning

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