Teachers will not get cost-of-living raises this year unless other state employees get raises
Given that other state employees will not be getting raises of any kind due to the fact that state
legislators have declared a moratorium on state wage hikes, teachers will not be getting costof-
living raises this year
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:This
passage contains an argument. The issue is whether teachers will be getting costof-
living raises this year. The conclusion is that teachers will not be getting cost-of-living
raises this year. The first premise is that teachers will not get cost-of-living raises this year
unless other state employees get raises. The second premise is that other state employees will
not be getting raises of any kind.
This passage contains a subargument. The intermediate conclusion is that other state
employees will not be getting raises of any kind. The premise is that state legislators have
declared a moratorium on state wage hikes.
The argument is a deductive truth-functional argument. The argument is valid because
it is impossible for all the premises to be true and the conclusion false, as is shown by the
truth table below.
~ O ? ~ T
~ O
~T
~ O ? ~ T/ ~ O// ~ T
F T T F T F T F T
F T T T F F T T F
T F F F T T F F T
T F T T F T F T F
?
? Teachers will not get cost-of-living raises this year unless other state employees get raises.
Given that ? other state employees will not be getting raises of any kind due to the fact that
? state legislators have declared a moratorium on state wage hikes, ? teachers will not be
getting cost-of-living raises this year.
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