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- PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you
have recently)
- PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you
have recently)PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do
a great deal in helping us understand our
arguments)PHI 103 Week 1 QuizPHI 103 Week 2 DQ
1 (Construct a deductive argument)PHI 103 Week 2
DQ 2
- Consider an argument you have recently had with a
friend, family member, manager, co-worker, or
someone else. Identify the topic of the argument
and present that argument in premise-conclusion
form, identifying both the premises and
conclusion.
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- PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do a great deal in
helping us understand our arguments)
- Logic can do a great deal in helping us
understand our arguments. Explain what advantages
we obtain by studying logic in terms of improving
our reasoning. Consider a debate over whether
prayer should be allowed in public schools.
- Question Which of these could be seen as a
premise in an argument? - Question A valid deductive argument, the
premises of which are accepted as true, shows
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- PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper Outline Pro
Choice (Legalized Abortion)
- PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive
argument)
- Final Paper Outline. Review the Final Paper
instructions in Week 5 of the online course or in
the Components of Course Evaluation section of
this guide.
- Construct an inductive argument for a specific
conclusion. Then, explain what you might do to
make this inductive argument stronger, either by
revising the premises or by revising the
conclusion.
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- PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive
argument)
- Construct an inductive argument for a specific
conclusion. Then, explain what you might do to
make this inductive argument stronger, either by
revising the premises or by revising the
conclusion.
- 1. Question "10 is less than 100 100 is
less than 1,000 consequently, 10 is less than
1,000" is an example of a - 2. Question One way to make an inductive
argument stronger is to
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- PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper
- PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the fallacies
discussed in Chapter Four)
- Read Stereotyping Has Lasting Negative Impact
Prejudice has lingering effects,study shows and
watch How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical
Reasoning.
- Considering the fallacies discussed in Chapter
Four of An Introduction to Logic, construct three
different arguments that display distinct
fallacies. Give an explanation of why each makes
a mistake in drawing the conclusion it does.
Review your classmates examples and see if they,
in fact, commit the fallacy identified.
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- PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 2 (One rich source of fallacies
is the media
- One rich source of fallacies is the media
television, radio, magazines, and the Internet
(including, of course, commercials.) Identify two
distinct fallacies you see committed in the
media. Do you think it is more likely that you
will not be fooled by these fallacies having
studied logic?
- Question "China uses too much oil. So they
shouldn't develop their industry" may commit
which fallacy?
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- PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz
- PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1 (Scientists design
experiments and try to obtain results)
- Mrs.Orlof teaches two history classes, one in the
morning and one in the afternoon. Yesterday she
gave the same test to both classes. Anyone who
failed the test must take a retest. Since a
greater percentage of students who took the
morning test failed the test than students
- DQ 1 As stated in our text book scientists
design experiments and try to obtain results
verifying or disproving a hypothesis, but
philosophers are the driving force in determining
what factors determine the validity of scientific
results. (Mosser, 2011). Karl Popper's
philosophy of science uses modus as the central
method of disconfirming, or falsifying,
scientific hypotheses.
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- PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 2 (Mary is poor. She has not
been able to find a job)
- Mary is poor. She has not been able to find a job
and has two children she needs to feed. Assume
Mary is forced to let her children go hungry or
steal some food from a local grocery store. Which
should she do? Construct an argument that
supports Mary's decision to steal the food
- . Question A good way to establish a
conclusion as true, or probable, is to - 2. Question Logicians regard the
following as the meaning of the word "argument." - 3. Question A strongly supported claim
in science should be regarded as
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- PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1 (Write two arguments in
English)
- PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2 (Imagine someone asks you
what you have learned)
- DQ 1Write two arguments in English, one in the
form of modus ponens and one in the form of modus
tollens. Then, write the arguments in symbols
using sentence letters and truth-functional
connectives.
- Imagine someone asks you what you have learned in
your logic class and what you found to be the
most useful information you learned there. Is it
important for people to study logic? What kinds
of mistakes might they make without having been
exposed to a careful study
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- PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abortion
- For the Final Paper, you will identify a specific
claim relative to one of the topics listed before
and defend it with as strong an argument as
possible. These topics are presented below as
questions. The best way to develop a thesis
statement
- 1. Question The sentence "P ? Q" is read
as - 2. Question "P v Q" is best interpreted
as - 3. Question What is the truth value of
the sentence "P v P"?
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