An argument is valid if and only if
A) its premises could be true and its conclusion false. B) it could not have all true premises and a false conclusion. C) it could not have all false premises and a true conclusion.
B
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Miguel de Unamuno held that consciousness was a disease
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Explain what a fallacy is
What kind of mistake is someone making when they commit an informal fallacy in an argument?
George has been having a streak of unusually bad luck. He totaled his car in a snowstorm last week, then fell on the ice and broke his leg. Two days later his wife left him, saying she was no longer willing to put up with his "little infidelities." Then just yesterday, he was fired from his job as a computer programmer because his program error rates were consistently too high and he missed too many deadlines. He began to regret ignoring his mother's advice to throw a pinch of salt over his left shoulder after he spilled that salt last month.
Identify the hypothesis in the following argument; and, if it fails to meet the four criteria for good scientific hypotheses, state which criterion is violated, and explain your answer.
Zeno rejected
a. our ability to have any knowledge at all. b. our ability to know ultimate reality. c. reason as an instrument of knowledge. d. the notion that anything is divisible into its parts.