What formal fallacy is committed by the following argument? "If Morgan is married to Linda, then he is not single. Morgan is not single. Therefore, he is married to Linda."
A) denying the antecedent B) affirming the consequent C) affirming a disjunct
B
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Socrates was an archetypal thinker in that he _______
A. convinced other people of his opinion through his eloquence B. was able to overcome any objection by thinking about archetypes C. was the quintessential model of rational inquiry D. developed a system of archetypes later used by Jung
Applied to evidence e and hypothesis h, the conditional rule says P(h = e) =
Assume that P(A) = 3/5, P(B) = 3/10, P(C) = 7/10, P(D) = 4/5, and P(A/B) = 7/10. Assuming that C and D are independent, determine the following probability: P(C ?D)
Symbols list Where necessary, you may use the list below to copy-and-paste symbols into your answer. ?; ?; •; ~; ?; ?; ?; ? ×
Other names for direct realism are
a. naive realism and commonsense realism. b. impressionism and sensory realism. c. mediated empiricism and natural realism. d. super-realism and first-order realism.