DEVRY PHIL447N WEEK 4,5 AND 6 QUIZ

Question 1. Question :

(TCOs 2, 7 & 9) Determine which one of the rhetorical devices or fallacies covered so far in our course occurs in the passage below. In a court proceeding: "My client is a single parent and the sole provider for her six children. A guilty verdict will cause irreparable damage to her family. If she is sent to prison, her children will be deprived of the love and care they need from a mother. Please, for her children’s sake deliver a verdict of not guilty."

Scare tactics

Common practice

Argument from pity

Wishful thinking

Question 2. Question :

(TCOs 2, 7 & 9) Determine which one of the rhetorical devices or fallacies covered so far in our course occurs in the passage below. Candidate for political office: “We are all sane, rational people here. As sane, rational people, you can clearly see beyond the hype and hyperbole of my opponent. I am confident that intelligent people like you will see that my tax policy will do far more for our country than his ever could.”

Argument from outrage

Nationalism

Appeal to popularity

Apple polishing

Question 3. Question :

(TCOs 7 & 9) Select the option that best depicts the fallacy found in this passage: In conversation: P: “I swear I saw the Loch Ness monster on my trip to Scotland.” M: “I don’t believe it.” P: “Can you prove that I didn’t see it?”

Line-drawing fallacy

Perfectionist fallacy

Strawman

Misplacing the burden of proof

Question 4. Question :

(TCOs 7 & 9) Which option best depicts the fallacy found in this passage: If cigarettes aren't bad for you, then how come it's so hard on your health to smoke?

Circumstantial ad hominem

Genetic fallacy

Begging the question

Strawman

Quiz 5

(TCOs 1 & 2) Categorical logic has been the principal form that the methodology of logic took for over 2,000 years, beginning with what philosopher?

Epicurus

Plato

Pythagoras

Aristotle

Question 2. Question :

(TCO 4) Each of the four standard-form categorical claims in categorical logic can be displayed graphically in a standard way using what logical tool?

Truth table

Venn diagram

Probability graph

Syllogism

Question 3. Question :

(TCOs 1 & 3) Categorical syllogisms employ two premise claims and a conclusion claim in standard forms, and three significant terms each occur exactly twice in exactly two of the claims. What do we call the term that occurs as the subject term of the syllogism's conclusion?

The minor term

The major term

The middle term

The conjunctive term

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Question 4. Question :

(TCOs 1 & 2) Standard-form categorical claims all begin with one of a small set of words. Which is the correct set?

All, no, and some

Most, no, and some

This, that, and some

All, every, and many

Question 5. Question :

(TCOs 3 & 4) Truth-functional logic employs truth tables to analyze sets of claims working together in arguments. What is the term that describes the situation in which two simpler claims are determined by the truth table to support a true argument "if and only if" both of the claims are true?

Contraction

Intersection

Conjunction

Contradiction

Qiz 6

(TCO 1 & 5) Which kind of inductive reasoning is being used in the following sample?

I spent last night at that hotel and was never once bitten by a bedbug. There are no bedbugs in that hotel.

Generalizing from a sample

Arguing from analogy

Reasoning from general to general

Using a statistical syllogism

Question 2. Question :

(TCO 1& 5) Which kind of inductive reasoning is being used in the following sample?

Most members of the House of Representatives take large campaign contributions; therefore, it is safe to conclude that most members of the Senate also take large campaign contributions.

Generalizing from a sample

Arguing from analogy

Reasoning from general to general

Using a statistical syllogism

Question 3. Question :

(TCO 6 & 7) Identify the inductive fallacy in the following example: Hardworking Americans need change now!

Slanted question

Self-selection fallacy

Weak analogy

Vague generality

Question 4. Question :

(TCO 2) Identify the error in causal reasoning in the following example: Nobody has proven that UFOs did not cause crop circles.

Proof by absence of disproof

Appeal to anecdote

Overlooking statistical regression

Confusing conditional probabilities

Question 5. Question :

(TCO 5) Identify the method of forming a causal hypothesis in the following example: Smoking is related to incidence of specific diseases. Medical data show that smokers are more likely to get emphysema, lung cancer, throat cancer, and heart disease, and get them younger than are nonsmokers. These reports show that smoking is a likely cause for these diseases.

Student Answer: Method of difference

Method of agreement

Best diagnosis method

None of the above