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PHI 103 Entire Course (Ash Course) For more
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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)
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PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you
have recently) (Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com         DQ
1 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) (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         DQ 2   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.
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PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz (Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com        
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
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PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper Outline Pro
Choice (Legalized Abortion) (Ash Course) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
    Final Paper Outline. Review the Final Paper
instructions in Week 5 of the onlinecourse or in
the Components of Course Evaluation section of
this guide.
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PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive
argument) (Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com         DQ
1   Construct a deductive argument that is valid
but not sound. Then, construct a valid deductive
argument that is sound. Be sure to put the
argument in premise-conclusion form.
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PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive
argument) (Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com         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 2 Quiz (Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com        
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 (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         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.
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PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the fallacies
discussed in Chapter Four) (Ash Course) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
    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. 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 (Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com         DQ
2   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? What do you think those presenting
these arguments assume about the logical skills
of their viewers? Is this a good or bad
assumption for them to make?
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PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz (Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com        
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)
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PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         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,
more of Orlofs morning history students than
afternoon history students will have to take the
retest. The conclusion above is not necessarily
valid because
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PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1 (Scientists design
experiments and try to obtain results) (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         PHI 103 PHI 103
Week 4   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) (Ash Course) For more
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DQ 2   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. Critique the arguments offered by
your classmates.
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PHI 103 Week 4 Quiz (Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com        
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."  
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PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1 (Write two arguments in
English) (Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         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.
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PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2 (Imagine someone asks you
what you have learned) (Ash Course) For more
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DQ 2   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? Offer your response to these
questions, and compare your answers to your
classmates' responses
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PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abortion
(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com         ? Argument
Paper   For the Final Paper, you will identify a
specific claim relative to one of the
topicslisted before and defend it with as strong
an argument as possible. These topicsare
presented below as questions. The best way to
develop a thesis statement isto offer an answer
to the question, and then state in a clear and
specific sentencethe basis for your answer
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PHI 103 Week 5 Quiz (Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com        
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"? 4.         Question        If P is false,
and Q is false, the truth-value of "P ?Q" is
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