INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. No theocracies are true democracies. No secular governments are theocracies. Thus, some secular governments are true democracies
A) Inductive, strong.
B) Deductive, invalid.
C) Inductive, weak.
D) Deductive, cogent.
E) Deductive, valid.
B
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a. warranted false belief b. unwarranted false belief
c. warranted true belief d. unwarranted true belief
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Some arguments intend demonstrating their conclusions to be probably true.