Question

Which excerpt from the text is the most evident example of fallacious reasoning?

1.)”From the age 15 to the age of 20 or 21 the child has the burden of adolescent... boys without instruction or left to work it out themselves it may lead to excess.”
2.) “We are all of us molded somewhat by the influences around us and to people who read, perhaps books are the most and strongest.”
3.) The whole life of childhood is a dream and in illusion and whether they take one shape or another shape depends not upon the dreamy boy but on what surrounds him.”
4.)”A terrible misfortune in this terrible case is that they had money... that has caused this mad act.”

Answer 1

Answer: Number 4, "A terrible misfortune in this case is that they had money... that has caused this mad act."

Explanation: The other answer was wrong for me on the test. Also, this sentence is very fallacious it implies that money was the only reason they did the crime when it wasn't.

(The attached file is proof that the other answer was wrong.)

Answer 2

The one excerpt from the text that is the most evident example of fallacious reasoning is the second one: "We are all of us molded somewhat by the influences around us and to people who read, perhaps books are the most strongest."

Step-by-step explanation:

These lines are not congruent, they have a wrong use of the reasoning, a faulty reasoning. Because of this, the argument is not valid.