Descartes' Dream Argument thought experiment is intended to show that sense experience cannot give us knowledge.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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Using the six definitional criteria, evaluate the following: A boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into.
What will be an ideal response?
The primary difference between inductive and deductive logic is that
A. deductive logic evaluates arguments for validity while inductive logic evaluates arguments for strength. B. deductive logic evaluates arguments whose premises are general and whose conclusion is specific, while inductive logic evaluates arguments whose premises are specific and whose conclusion is general. C. deductive logic provides algorithms for testing arguments, while inductive logic is intuitive. D. deductive logic can be used to determine the truth of the premises, while inductive logic can only indicate whether the premises are likely to be true.
Juanita has taken six courses at Valley Community College, and she has a grade average of B so far. All the courses she has taken have been in sociology and psychology. She's thinking of enrolling in another course next term, and she expects to make at least a B in whatever she takes. If we don't know yet what subject she will take, would her argument be stronger, weaker, or neither if her previous six courses had been in four different subjects rather than two?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The Principle of Charity requires that we
A. put an ambiguous or unclear argument in the best possible light when rewriting it as a well-crafted argument. B. ignore mistakes in reasoning when we agree with an argument's conclusion. C. not distort an argument's meaning when rewriting it as a well-crafted one. D. correct any mistakes in reasoning in an argument we are analyzing.