INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Some preachers are evangelists, so some preachers are TV personalities, since some evangelists are TV personalities
A) Inductive, weak.
B) Deductive, invalid.
C) Inductive, strong.
D) Deductive, sound.
E) Deductive, valid.
B
You might also like to view...
For James, a genuine option is
A) live and forced. B) live, forced, and momentous. C) live and momentous, but avoidable. D) dead, avoidable, and trivial.
Identify the other theses that would be true if Rand's thesis—that there are no conflicts of interest at all between people—was also true. A. If one accepts that there are no real conflicts of interest, one would have toalso accept Rand's thesis that the wealthy or talented should put the needs ofthe poor above their own and her thesis that one should always consider theself-interests of
others. B. If one accepts that there are no real conflicts of interest, one would have toalso accept Rand's thesis that in the face of conflict, one must help those inneed and her thesis that true altruism is nonexistent. C. If one accepts that there are no real conflicts of interest, one would have to also accept Rand's thesis that there is no duty to help those in need and her thesis that true altruism is nonexistent. D. If one accepts that there are no real conflicts of interest, one would have to also accept Rand's thesis that one should use one's talent to help others and her thesis that true altruism is a desired way of life.
What formal fallacy is committed by the following argument? "If you are rational, then you oppose the death of unborn children and favor the death penalty for murderers. But you are not rational
Hence, it is false that you oppose the death of unborn children and favor the death penalty for murderers." A) denying the antecedent B) affirming the consequent C) affirming a disjunct
The Epicureans did not believe in the existence of the gods
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.