Reference no: EM133366145

Check the following passages to see whether they contain examples of vagueness, ambiguity, euphemisms or emotionally charged language. Is the reasoning affected by any of these things?

1. "Art is energy. It is a privileged communication that passes between something and the spirit if a human."

2. "Physicians in general do not seem to commit suicide at area significantly different from that of their non-medical peers, although perhaps of their knowledge of drugs and access to them, their methods of choice are characteristically non-violent: doctors poison themselves more than twice as often as the lay public, and shoot themselves less often, Psychiatrists, however, show a markedly greater tendency to commit suicide than the population at large or their medical peers."

3. "The probation officer told her client that if he was not able to keep appointments it would be necessary to consider a reinstatement of his previous situation with reference to penal institutions. The client asked whether he would have to go back to jail."

4. "Children who are unable to move on to the next grade do not fail. They are retained."