The U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast will be ready to leave the country at the end of the
month if the warring parties have completed the peace negations by the end of January.
Inasmuch as the warring parties did complete the peace negations by the end of January, the
U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast will be ready to leave the country at the end of the month
a. categorical argument d. inductive generalization
b. truth-functional argument e. causal argument
c. analogical argument
B
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Garden of Eden.
a. classical b. original c. hereditary d. immemorial
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Although a person might be a hypocrite for saying that you shouldn't do something that they themselves do, their argument might still be good.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
. . . the simplest form of the theological argument from design, once well known under the name of "Paley's watch." Paley's form of it was just this: "If we found by chance a watch or some other intricate mechanism we should infer that it had been made by someone. But all around us we do find intricate pieces of natural mechanism, and the processes of the universe are seen to move together in complex relations; we should therefore infer that these too have a Maker." (B. A. O. Williams, "Metaphysical Arguments," in The Nature of Metaphysics, D. F. Pears, ed.)
Analyze the following argument in terms of the schema for arguments from analogy. Briefly state at least one criticism that calls the strength of the argument into question.