INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Claire Connors and Melanie Howard cannot be one and the same person, because Claire was in Berlin during the entire month of January, and at that time Melanie was in Chicago
A) Inductive, strong.
B) Deductive, valid.
C) Deductive, invalid.
D) Deductive, sound.
E) Inductive, weak.
B
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a. I am a rational animal. b. I am a thinking thing, a thing that doubts. c. I am this body and all the physical properties that make it up. d. I am my body plus all the sensations that it experiences.
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a. All the courses offered at Sonoma State University b. All the business courses at Sonoma State University c. The three business courses I have taken at Sonoma State University
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A. occurs only in unjust societies. B. is an inborn flaw. C. is analogous to civil strife in a state. D. can never be cured. E. None of the above
For the following, indicate whether the definition given is by example, by synonym, or analytical: Honor means being willing to lay down your life for a just cause.
What will be an ideal response?