Wednesday, 24 February 2016

PHI 103 PHI/103 PHI103 Week 3 quiz NEW


PHI 103 PHI/103 PHI103 Week 3 quiz NEW

  1. What type of inductive reasoning is the following argument?
  2. A claim is falsifiable if __________.
  3. What type of inductive argument is the following example?
    Most people I have talked to said that they are voting for Jones.
    So most people are going to vote for Jones.
  4. One way to make an inductive argument weaker is to __________.
  5. If A is a sufficient condition for B, then which relationship holds between them?
  6. Which of the following is true about inductive reasoning versus deductive reasoning?
  7. A common misconception about inductive arguments is that they __________.
  8. In the “What is a ‘Strong’ Argument?” video, what is the line at which we call an argument logically strong? 
  9. What type of inductive argument is the following example?
  10. What type of inductive argument is the following example?
    The vast majority of high school aged kids to go public high schools.
    The Jones’s have a high school aged boy.
    So he probably goes to a public high school.
  11. When conducting a survey, it is important to choose a sample that __________.
  12. Which of the following is necessary in order for an explanation to be adequate?
  13. What does it mean for an argument to be cogent?
  14. Which of the following is not one of the questions given for assessing a possible explanation?
  15. In this form of an argument, one draws a conclusion based on a similarity of the present case to other cases that have something in common with it.
  16. Good explanations often can explain other phenomena. The name for this is __________.
  17. This form of inductive argument moves from the specific to the general __________.
  18. Inductive arguments are evaluated in terms of __________ 
  19. Claims that are interpreted such that they always come out to be true are called __________.
  20. Adding more premises to a valid deductive argument ____________.

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