INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. All fair elections are elections untainted with fraud. Therefore, all elections tainted with fraud are unfair elections

A) Valid.

B) Invalid, illicit conversion.

C) Invalid, existential fallacy.

D) Invalid, illicit obversion.

E) Invalid, illicit contraposition.


A

Philosophy & Belief

You might also like to view...

Religious followers who take a literal position on the scriptural accounts of

creation are usually incompatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Philosophy & Belief

Affirmative action

What will be an ideal response?

Philosophy & Belief

Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. If its ion engine operates as planned, its huge solar panel remains deployed and undamaged, and its xenon energy

source is not exhausted, then the Dawn spacecraft will reach both Vesta and Ceres (large asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter), and scientists will gather information about the formation of planets, whether Ceres has a buried ocean of fresh water, and whether vestiges of life lurk beneath its icy surface. A) Argument; conclusion: Its ion engine operates ... not exhausted. B) Argument; conclusion: The Dawn spacecraft ... Mars and Jupiter) C) Argument; conclusion: The Dawn spacecraft ... beneath its icy surface. D) Argument; conclusion: Scientists will gather information ... formation of planets. E) Nonargument.

Philosophy & Belief

Which of the following words is not a conclusion indicator?

What will be an ideal response?

Philosophy & Belief