What is the logical form of denying the consequent (modus tollens)?
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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. During the two years that Abigail has served as president of the Crescent Society, several of its members have suffered from insomnia. Thus, in the interests of better sleep for these people, the Society should elect a new president
A) No fallacy. B) Equivocation. C) Weak analogy. D) Appeal to ignorance. E) False cause.
According to Moore, the naturalistic fallacy occurs:
a. any time philosophers attempt to define good. b. when philosophers attempt to define good in terms of natural properties. c. when philosophers realize that they cannot define good. d. all of these choices. e. none of these choices.
"Parallelism" is a kind of explanation designed to apply to which theory?
A. Neutralism B. Idealism C. Materialism D. Dualism
If an argument is not good, then
a. the argument is not clear and requires the principle of charity b. the argument has one false premise and a false conclusion c. the argument is neither deductively valid nor inductively strong or it has at least one false premise d. the argument does not persuade people