PrepTest 31, Section 3, Question 5
Logician: I have studied and thoroughly mastered the laws of logic. So to argue that I sometimes violate the laws of logic in ordinary conversation would be like arguing that some physicist circumvents the laws of physics in everyday life.
Logician: I have studied and thoroughly mastered the laws of logic. So to argue that I sometimes violate the laws of logic in ordinary conversation would be like arguing that some physicist circumvents the laws of physics in everyday life.
Logician: I have studied and thoroughly mastered the laws of logic. So to argue that I sometimes violate the laws of logic in ordinary conversation would be like arguing that some physicist circumvents the laws of physics in everyday life.
Logician: I have studied and thoroughly mastered the laws of logic. So to argue that I sometimes violate the laws of logic in ordinary conversation would be like arguing that some physicist circumvents the laws of physics in everyday life.
The reasoning in the logician's argument is questionable because this argument
ignores the fact that our conception of physical laws undergoes constant change
presents no evidence that physics is as difficult to master as logic
fails to rule out the possibility that some physicist could circumvent the laws of physics in everyday life
treats two kinds of things that differ in important respects as if they do not differ
has a conclusion that contradicts what is asserted in its premise
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