Use either the intuitive test or the scenario method to determine whether the argument is valid or invalid. Carl: I'm going to bring my cigar to the restaurant tonight. That way, if I get the urge for a nicotine fix, I'll just light it up. Sam: Are you crazy? People will be outraged if you smoke a cigar at the restaurant. After all, it's against the law to smoke indoors in public! Carl: I
respectfully disagree. I read the notice at the restaurant carefully last time I was there. It stated, "Smoking of cigarettes and pipe tobacco is prohibited in the restaurant," and cigars are obviously neither. So, they must be allowed.
a. Valid
b. Invalid
b
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a. Poverty in contemporary England is NOT of the same magnitude and degree as it is in the Third World. b. The kind of poverty from which the English suffer is not material but spiritual poverty. c. Poverty in contemporary England is caused primarily by poor lifestyle choices rather than by a lack of means. d. Income redistribution by the welfare state has succeeded in eliminating poverty.
Descartes maintains that he can doubt that his body exists.
a. true b. false
Legalism refers to the __________
a. assumption that all humans need government because they are selfish b. assumption that government is unnecessary c. assumption that every human has a role to play in the cosmos d. belief that people are fundamentally good
Critical thinkers do not reject, without sound reason, views that conflict with their own.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)