__________ studies how we distinguish good arguments from bad ones
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
ANSWER: Logic
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Analyze the argument passage below, addressing the following as appropriate: specify the issues addressed; identify premises and conclusions; classify as inductive or deductive; supply missing premises; separate arguments from window dressing; identify claims better left unstated.A combination of anti-HIV drugs has proven much more successful than the use of any single drug. But that means successful treatments are going to be even more expensive, because taking the drugs in combination has to cost more than taking just a single drug.
What will be an ideal response?
To resolve a paradox requires
A) showing that at least one of the paradoxical claims is false. B) showing that the paradoxical claims are ambiguous. C) showing that all the paradoxical claims are vague.
Analyze the argument passage below, addressing the following as appropriate: specify the issues addressed; identify premises and conclusions; classify as inductive or deductive; supply missing premises; separate arguments from window dressing; identify claims better left unstated.You shouldn't buy a television set that costs over $300, and that one costs $450. And that television set is much too big for your living room anyway. You shouldn't buy any television set that's too big for your living room.
What will be an ideal response?
Putnam points out an important distinction in Dewey's work between
a. the mental and the physical. b. the objective and the esthetic. c. dreams and reality. d. the valued and the valuable. e. the empirical and the transcendent.