Identify the following type of syllogism: “All philosophers are good looking individuals. All
good looking individuals are intelligent. Therefore all philosophers are intelligent.
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Answer:
categori
cal
The law of excluded middle states
Selected
Answer:
something cannot both be and not be at
the same time
“Something is or is not” comes under the category of a law of logic:
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
No inductive argument can arrive at a logically certain conclusion, i.e. in which the
conclusion is necessarily true.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Propositions are evaluated according to their
Selected
Answer:
truth
value
PHIL 201 Quiz 2
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Question 2: 0 out of 3
(WRONG)
Question 3: 3 out of 3 points
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Question 5: 3 out of 3 points
In a valid deductive argument the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
The Latin phrase that means ‘it does not follow’ is:
Selected
Answer:
Response
Feedback:
Non
Sequitur
[None
Given]
This may be the most well-known fallacy of presumption:
Selected
begging the question
Answer:
Identify the fallacy: Senator Newkirk’s arguments to increase federal spending for the
military should be rejected. He is only arguing because he has several military bases in his
state and is beginning his re-election campaign.
Selected
Answer:
ad
hominem
The “fallacy of hypostatization” treats an abstract word like a concrete word.
Question 6: 3 out of 3 points
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The fallacy that applies a double standard without warrant is called:
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special pleading
Answer:
This fallacy is sometimes referred to as the false dilemma:
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bifurcation
Answer:
The fallacy of equivocation occurs when the meaning of a significant term changes in
the middle of an argument.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
Ad Hoc refers to:
Selected
Answer:
an explanation that is created for the situation at
hand
The explanation that can be understood with the least amount of effort, vagueness, and
ambiguity has the best:
Selected explanatory power
Answer:
Question 11: 3 out of 3 points
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Question 15: 3 out of 3 points
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
Plausibility is the aspect of a best explanation approach that
Selected
Answer:
fits with our background
knowledge
In the best explanation approach, illumination
Selected provides information on related areas
Answer:
Knowing the main point of the argument will help me find the conclusion.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
A best explanation approach is often the best way to argue because many issues in
philosophy do not have perfect solutions.
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
A sound deductive argument could be invalid.
Selected
Answer:
Fals
e
Question 16: 3 out of 3 points
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Question 21: 3 out of 3 points
Identify this kind of argument: If naturalism is true, then all things are determined and there
is no free will. If there is no free will then morality makes no sense. Therefore, if naturalism
is true then morality makes no sense.
Selected
Answer:
hypothetical
syllogism
An argument where one gathers identical particular instances and arrives at a common
conclusion:
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generalization
Answer:
An inductive argument is measured in degrees of probability:
Selected
Answer:
Tru
e
An analogy is an inductive argument.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
Type of argument that begins with a problem with an unknown explanation, forms a
theory and tests the theory.
Selected
Answer:
hypothetical reasoning
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