Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language in the following passage.If Shelley has read the Republic, then she's bound to know who Thrasymachus is. And, since she clearly does know who Thrasymachus is, we can conclude that she must have read the Republic.
What will be an ideal response?
Affirming the consequent
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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some non-A are B. (F) Contradiction
A) No non-A are B. (T) B) All non-A are not B. (F) C) Some non-B are A. (Und.) D) Some non-A are not B. (F) E) No A are non-B. (F)
The minimum probability value is ________
a. negative infinity b. ?1 c. 0 d. None of these choices.
A criminologist hypothesized that the rate of unemployment is causally connected with the rate of violent crime. Observing that the crime rate increased as the level of unemployment increased and decreased as unemployment decreased, she concluded that the rate of violent crime in a community has a direct causal effect on the rate of unemployment.
Which of Mill's Methods is illustrated in the following passage? If, in your opinion, the conclusion reached indicates that an inadequate hypothesis was employed, explain why and formulate a better hypothesis.
The use of the name _______________ for the first five books of the OT was popularized by Hellenized Jews
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).