Sherlock Holmes, the Famous Detective, Believes That the Person Who

question 329

Multiple Choice

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, believes that the person who committed a crime is left-handed. So he inspects the person's house to see if the TV remotes are kept on the left or the right side of the easy chair. 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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