Unit 8 · Detecting Reasoning Errors
Gold Star Students — Conditional Logic Error
Lesson 9 of 34
About this lesson
Harder error-detection items give you a strict if-then rule and two speakers — you judge who follows the logic and who makes an illegal leap.
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Every student who receives a Gold Certificate at Ferndale School has completed all 30 required assignments.
Cleo: "Marcus has not completed all 30 required assignments, so he cannot have received a Gold Certificate."
Dante: "And if Priya has received a Gold Certificate, it is guaranteed that she has completed all 30 required assignments."
If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct?
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