Mr. Spock of Star Trek is cold, logical, and unemotional. Spock is a Vulcan
Therefore, Vulcans are cold, logical, and unemotional.
What will be an ideal response?
(Inductive generalization. A generalization is made about all Vulcans on the basis of
a sample consisting of one Vulcan. If Spock is representative of Vulcans, then the
argument is strong. But we cannot say that the sampling gives every Vulcan an
equal chance of appearing. Furthermore, from our own case we know that the target
characteristic -- cold, logical, unemotional -- is not randomly distributed among
humans. A sample consisting of one cold, logical, unemotional human would not be
considered strong evidence for the same occurrence of that target characteristic in all
humans. Thus, the argument is not a strong one.)
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