INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Author Tim LaHaye says that the rapture (when all righteous people will be miraculously lifted up to heaven) will occur in the not too distant future. Therefore, this event is sure to happen soon

A) Inductive, strong.

B) Deductive, uncogent.

C) Deductive, invalid.

D) Inductive, weak.

E) Deductive, valid.


D

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