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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)
- 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)
- 1. Question Which of these could be seen as
a premise in an argument? - 2. Question A valid deductive argument, the
premises of which are accepted as true, shows - 3. Question "You didn't like that book so
you probably don't like to read" is
- 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.
Explain what logic can and cannot do.
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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. - Then, visit the Ashford Writing Center (located
in the Learning Resources tab in the left
navigation bar).
- 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)
- 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 - 3. Question All sound arguments are valid,
but not all valid arguments are sound. This means
- DQ 2
- 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 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper
- PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the fallacies
discussed in Chapter Four)
- PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper
- Stereotype Paper.
- Read Stereotyping Has Lasting Negative Impact
Prejudice has lingering effects,study shows and
watch How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical
Reasoning.
- DQ 1
- 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.
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- PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 2 (One rich source of fallacies
is the media
- 1. Question "China uses too much oil. So they
shouldn't develop their industry" may commit
which fallacy? - 2. Question "Julie started carrying a
rabbit's foot, then she won the lottery. The
rabbit's foot must have caused her to win the
lottery" commits a(n)
- 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?
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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)
- 1. Question 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 who took the afternoon test,
- 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).
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- PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 2 (Mary is poor. She has not
been able to find a job)
- 1. 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
- 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 or an
argument that shows why Mary should not steal the
food
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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)
- PHI 103 PHI 103 Week 5
- 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 of reasoning provided
by logic?
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- PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abortion
- ? Argument Paper
- 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.
- 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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