INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. The Director of the National Park Service stated in an interview that vegetation in the parks is seriously threatened by air pollution. Therefore, it must be the case that park vegetation is indeed threatened by air pollution, just as the Director says
A) Deductive, valid.
B) Deductive, invalid.
C) Inductive, weak.
D) Inductive, uncogent.
E) Inductive, strong.
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