Unit 2 Assignment Philosophy
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Unit2AS.docxUnit 2 AS: Recognize arguments [(Required/Graded: 60 Points) CSLO 1, CSLO 3, CSLO4]
AS Instructions:
1. Read the following 10 passages and decide whether they are arguments.
2. Explain why you think they are/are not arguments.
3. If you think a passage is an argument, write it in argument form numbering the premise(s) and labeling each premise using the capital letter P, and the conclusion using the capital letter C.
4. If the argument is an enthymeme, supply the missing premise or conclusion.
5. Upload as Word document.
1. A mammal is a vertebrate animal that nurses its offspring. Humans, cats and dogs are mammals, as are sheep, monkeys, rabbits, and bears.
2. If stem-cell research is restricted, then future cures will not materialize. If future cures do not materialize, then people will die prematurely. Therefore, if stem-cell research is restricted, then people will die prematurely.
3. Mortality rates for women undergoing early abortions, where the procedure is legal, appear to be as low as or lower than the rates for normal childbirth. Consequently, any interest of the state in protecting the woman from an inherently hazardous procedure, except when it would be equally dangerous for her to forgo it, has largely disappeared
4. We as a nation have been guilty of far too many excesses for too long. We waste more than most in the rest of the world. It is time we sucked it in and tightened our belts. Our families, our nation and the rest of the world will only be better off.
5. Bear one thing in mind before you begin to write your paper: Famous literary works, especially works regarded as classics, have been thoroughly studied to the point where prevailing opinion on them has assumed the character of orthodoxy.
6. For organisms at the sea surface, sinking into deep water usually means death. Plant cells cannot photosynthesize in the dark depths. Fishes and other animals that descend lose contact with the main surface food supply and them- selves become food for strange deep-living predators.
7. Atoms are the basic building blocks of all matter. They can combine to form molecules, whose properties are generally very different from those of the constituent atoms. Table salt, for example, a simple chemical compound formed from chlorine and sodium, resembles neither the poisonous gas nor the highly reactive metal.
8. Paying chief executives hundreds of times more than ordinary employees creates economic inequality, which contributes to political instability, violent crime, and reduced life expectancy. Whatever contributes to political instability, violent crime, and reduced life expectancy is not morally justified. So, there is no moral justification for chief executives being paid hundreds of times more than ordinary employees.
9. We must resist all effort to allow the government to censor entertainment. Freedom of speech and expressions are essential to a democratic form of government. As soon as we allow some censorship, it won't be long before censorship will be used to silence the opinions critical of the government. The next thing we know, we will have no more freedom than the Germans did under Hitler.
10. If it rains, anything that is not covered outside gets wet. Your car is wet. Consequently it rains.
