Lateral Thinking Brain Teasers - Fact. Lateral thinking problems that are based on fact. 1.
A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink of water. The bartender gives the man a drink of water, but the man says the water is no good. The bartender thinks for a minute, pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks out. Hint: Please do not try this at home. Solution: The man has hiccups; the bartender scares them away by pulling a gun. A Colombian man accidentally shot his nephew to death while trying to cure his hiccups by pointing a revolver at him to scare him, police in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla said on Tuesday, the 24th of January 2006.
After shooting 21-year-old university student David Galvan in the neck, his uncle, Rafael Vargas, 35, was so distraught he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide, police said. The incident took place on Sunday night while the two were having drinks with neighbors. "They were drinking but they were aware of what was going on," one witness said. Inductive Games – a great starter. Next time you’re stuck for an interesting way to start a lesson for any year group try some of these inductive games: Rules: Pupils are in pairs.
One pupil reads the instructions, the other does not. The pupil with the instructions reads out the normal type, but not the print in italics. They then play the game. Each time, the reading player says who has won. Game no.1 You need 1 die. Both players throw the die, one after the other. The one with the lower score wins. If both scores are the same, the one who rolled first wins. Game no. 2 You need 2 dice (one each). Both players throw their die at the same time.
If one rolls an even number, and the other an odd number, the even number wins. If both players roll an even number, the higher one wins. If both players roll an odd number, the higher one wins. If both players roll the same number, the game is drawn. Game no. 3 You need 4 dice (two each) Both players roll both dice at the same time.
Chapter 12: Evaluation: Assessing The Validity Of Deductive Arguments. PowerPoint Presentation. The Fallacy-a-Day PodcastThe Fallacy-a-Day Podcast. The psychologist’s fallacy is committed when an observer presupposes the objectivity of his own perspective when analyzing someone else’s behaviour.
That is, the observer supposes that the subject would respond to a stimulus in the same way as the observer would respond. Note 1: The fallacy is likely to occur if the observer presupposes knowledge or skills, or the lack thereof, possessed by the observer or other people he knows. Note 2: The psychologist’s fallacy is similar to the historian’s fallacy (dealt with in episode 41) with the difference that in the case of the historian’s fallacy the difference in knowledge and skills is due to the historian already being aware of how the events that the subject was a part of unfolded. The following two examples are adapted from this web page. I state my adaptation of their examples below and then I add my own analysis after each. Example 1: Example 2: Our brains: predictably irrational. 25 divide by 5 equals 14. 11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I. Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies.
The War on Logic - NYTimes.com. BBC Radio 4 Programmes - In Our Time, Logic.