"It is snowing" illustrates:

a. logical warrantability
b. semantic warrantability
c. systemic warrantability
d. empirical warrantability


d.

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Natural logic says that talking is merely an incidental process concerned

strictly with the formation of ideas

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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A Sikh nationalist movement is working to create an independent Sikh homeland to be known as Khalistan, "the land of the __________."

a. free b. Guru c. powerful d. pure e. wise

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INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Jenny and Francine were awarded National Merit Scholarships and both love mathematics. Jenny breezed through Dr. Marshall's calculus class with an "A". Thus, Francine should do well in that class, too

A) Inductive, weak. B) Inductive, sound. C) Inductive, strong. D) Deductive, valid. E) Deductive, invalid.

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Use a counterexample to show that the following argument is invalid. (Remember, it is usually best to use terms—or statements—whose interrelations are well known.) "All zoologists are natural scientists. No historians are zoologists. So, no historians are natural scientists."

What will be an ideal response?

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