Argument Strength
Homework Assignment
Name_________________ Sect___
Answer the follow questions for these
arguments.
Print this page, and submit it in class. Only turn in the answer sheet.
A. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
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B. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
3.__________ 4.__________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
C. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
D. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
E. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
3.__________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
F. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
G. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
H. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
I. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
J. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
3.__________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
K. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1._______ 2._________
3.__________ 4.__________ 5._________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
L. are the premises TRUE, FALSE, or do you
SUSPEND JUDGMENT?
1.________ 2.____________
Is the argument:
_________Valid ___________Cogent
___________Ill-formed
Is the argument:
______Deductively strong
________Inductively strong or _______Weak?
If it is weak, why?
________________________________________________________________
Only turn in the answer sheet (above.)
Deductive and Inductive
Strength Homework
A. 1. Human cloning techniques are
a medical method
for assisting people to have children.
2. If something is a medical method for
assisting people to have children, then people have a right to it.
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3. Therefore, people have a right to human cloning techniques.
B. 1. Therapeutic cloning is a technique for
growing tissues and organs, but not whole organisms, for medical treatment.
2. Many people would benefit
from having their tissues or organs cloned for transplantation.
3. If therapeutic cloning research is
controlled carefully the harms can be kept to a minimum.
4. If a there is a technique that would
benefit many people, and one where careful controls can keep the harms to a
minimum, then we should develop it.
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5. Therefore, we should develop therapeutic
cloning techniques.
C. 1. If a person wants to be
happy, then they should pursue a stable, married relationship.
2. George Clooney is pursuing a stable,
married relationship.
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3. Therefore, George Clooney wants to be
happy.
D. 1. All of Sandra Bullock’s movies
are lame.
2. Sandra Bullock has a new movie out.
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3. Therefore, Sandra Bullock's new movie is
lame.
E. 1. If an action does not hurt
another person, then a person has a legal and
moral right to do it.
2. A fetus during the first trimester is not
a person.
3. Getting an abortion during the
first trimester is an action that does not hurt another person.
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4. Therefore, a person has a legal and moral
right to get an abortion (during the first trimester.)
F. 1. Most of the time when people give testimony about
extraordinary and important things that they have seen they don't lie.
2. People give testimony about Bigfoot,
which is an extraordinay and important thing that they have seen.
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3. Therefore, people are not lying about
seeing Bigfoot.
G. 1. If you eat right and exercise then it
will improve your health and prolong your life.
2. You want to improve your health and
prolong your life.
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3. Therefore, you should eat right and
exercise.
H. 1. The vast majority of people believe
that God exists.
2. Most of the time, when the vast
majority of people believe something, it is true.
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3. So, it is true that God exists.
I. 1. Most of the pop music stars who become
popular very quickly and disappear fast are not talented.
2. Ashley Simpson is a pop music star who
became popular very quickly and disappeared fast.
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3. Therefore, Ashley Simpson is not
talented.
J. 1. Violent media (television, movies, and
music) has a negative effect on people who are regularly exposed to it.
2. Violent media does not have any other
redeeming values.
3. If something has negative
effects on people who are regularly exposed to it and no other redeeming values, then we will benefit from
banning it.
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4. So, we will benefit from banning violent
media.
K. 1. If a being is omnipotent, then it has
the power to eliminate evil.
2. If a being is omniscient, then it knows
about evil.
3. If a being is infinitely good, then it has
the desire to eliminate evil.
4. If a being has the power, the knowledge
and the desire to eliminate evil, then there would be no evil in the world.
5. But there is evil in the world.
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6. Therefore, there is not a being that is
omnipotent, omniscient, and infinitely good.
L. 1. All people have the capacity to kill.
2. All people who have the capacity to kill
should avoid having loaded guns around the house.
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3. Therefore, all people should avoid having
loaded guns around the house.