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Check the sports page in your local paper and see if it publishes picks for sporting events. Looking only at the picks, can you determine which teams will play each other on a given day?

 

Lewis Carroll—the author of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites—wrote the following logical arguments in which the last statement is a conclusion based upon the first two.

Every eagle can fly;
Some pigs cannot fly.
Some pigs are not eagles.

Make up some logical arguments of your own like the ones Carroll wrote. Try your arguments on a friend to see if they believe them.

 

 

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