INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. If people can talk to the dead, then the dead are still alive. People cannot talk to the dead. Therefore, the dead are not still alive

A) Deductive, valid.

B) Inductive, strong.

C) Deductive, invalid.

D) Inductive, weak.

E) Deductive, sound.


C

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