Chapter 2

Question 1

What are the two parts to an argument?

Answer 1

Premise and Conclusion

Question 2

What is the premise

Answer 2

The reason for accepting the conclusion

Question 3

What is an unstated premise?

Answer 3

implied

Question 4

What is a deductive argument?

Answer 4

The premise, if true, proves or demonstrates its conclusion

Question 5

When is an argument valid?

Answer 5

When it isn’t possible for the premise to be true and the conclusion false

Question 6

What is it called when the premise of an argument is true?

Answer 6

Sound

Question 7

What is an inductive argument?

Answer 7

The premise doesn’t demonstrate its conclusion, it supports it:

Example: After 2pm traffic slows to a crawl on bay bridge.
Therefore, traffic probably does the same thing on blank bridge.

Question 8

When there is an unstated premise, what should you use to clarify if the argument is inductive or deductive?

Answer 8

context and content

Question 9

How can you turn an inductive argument with an unstated premise into a deductively valid argument?

Answer 9

By supplying the right universal premise. Something that is true in all cases.
Is that what the speaker has in mind? You need to use background knowledge and common sense to answer the question