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Question 1

Differences between valid and strong arguments

Answer 1

• with a valid argument no new information could make any difference to the relation between premises and conclusion but with a strong argument new information could make a difference
• valid is deductive
• strong is inductive

Question 2

What happens if a premise is contradictory?

Answer 2

-Valid but not sound

Question 3

Which fallacy’s are valid? Why?

Answer 3

All unacceptable premises

All irrelevant premises if they are in a valid form

Question 4

Name the irrelevant premises.

Answer 4

CG REDS
Genetic fallacy
Composition 
Division
Equivocation 
Red Herring
Straw man

T-PIPE
Appeal to:
Person
Popularity
Tradition
Ignorance
Emotion

Question 5

Name unacceptable premises.

Answer 5

BFF SH
Begging the question
False dilemma
Slippery slope
Hasty generalization
Faulty analogy

Question 6

Do a question on fallacies

Answer 6

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Question 7

Do a question on Deductive/ Inductive.

Answer 7

1.

Question 8

What is categorical Logic?

Answer 8

A form of logic whose focus is categorical statements, which make assertions about categories or classes of things

Question 9

What are categorical statement

Answer 9

A statement or claim that makes a simple assertion about categories or classes of things

Question 10

What’s a subject term?

Answer 10

The first class or group named in standard form categorical statement

Question 11

What is a predicate term?

Answer 11

The second class or group named in a standard form categorical statement

Question 12

What is a standard form categorical statement and what are the forms?

Answer 12

In categorical logic, a categorical statement that takes the form of one of these forms:

1. All S and P
2. No S are P
3. Some S are P
4. Some S are not P

Question 13

What lets and names go with the standard form categorical statement?

Answer 13

A: All S are P (Universal affirmative)
E: No S are P (Universal negative)
I: Some S are P (Particular affirmative)
O: Some S are not P (Particular negative)

Question 14

What are singular statements?

Answer 14

In categorical logic, statements that assert something about a single person or thing, including objects, places and times

Question 15

Give an example of Turing a singular statement to a categorical statement?

Answer 15

Anything that turns a statement into an All S is P or something like that.

Chris Rock is a comedian
To
All people identical to Christ Rock are comedians

Question 16

Diagram and argument from a book.

Answer 16

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Question 17

Do a Venn Diagram from the book.

Answer 17

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Question 18

What are the Venn diagrams for each categorical statement? Why?

Answer 18

A: shade all of S (can’t possibly be any just S)
E: Shade all of the middle (Can’t possible be both S and P)
I: Put an X in the middle (Some of the S is also P)
O: Put an X on the S (Some of the S is not P)