Chapter 148
He took a deep breath. “Formal logical fallacies and informal logical fallacies.”
Duke was obviously surprised.
He thought that this boy was just pretending to read the book, but he really understood it.
Books on logic were dull. They were even more boring than mathematics. Regular people would not be able to read such a book and understand it.
More importantly, this boy was just four years old. Duke closed the book and casually said, “Let me ask you another question about logic.”
Alden lost his patience. “I don’t want this book now.” “If you want to study logic, you can’t be so impatient.” Duke curled his lips sternly. “The question I want to ask is related to your mother.”
At the mention of his mother, Alden could no longer stay calm.
He pursed his lips and firmly said, “You better leave my mom alone, or”
“I just want to ask a question,” Duke interrupted him. “You ask me to leave your mom alone, or else, you’ll kill me, and at least three people hear it. The next day, I die. How do you explain this from a logical perspective?”
Alden had been studying logic over the past two weeks. He was greatly interested in logic.
had the urge to answer.
He pursed his lips and calmly said, “There’s the hindsight bias, where a certain cause is affirmed because the result is seen. Normally, people will only correlate something to a single cause and effect. If this is established, they will think that I killed you. This is the most common logical error made by people…” He kept talking, and he emanated a special aura.
For some reason, Duke saw George in Alden.
George used to be interested in logic for a time, but he had put the course aside because he had become busy with work.
“How’s that? Are you happy with my answer?”
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