Direction: In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. |
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind of propaganda that works so well on the majority. Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations, which are the propagandist's stock-in-trade. |
A) demand logical inconsistencies and fallacies
B) ignore faulty logic and wrong beliefs
C) look for evidence in support of logical inconsistencies and fallacies
D) accept only those things which are logically consistent and well supported by evidence
Correct Answer: D
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