INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Right wing columnist and author Michelle Malkin says that the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World war II was really for their own protection. Therefore, we must drop that silly nonsense that this internment was a

monstrous injustice, and start thinking of it as a humanitarian endeavor.

A) Deductive, invalid.

B) Inductive, strong.

C) Deductive, valid.

D) Inductive, weak.

E) Deductive, unsound.


D

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