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PHI103 103 1)What makes an argument deductive? 2. Which fallacy attacks a person's position based on a distortion of their actual views? 3. "I can't let you in without a ticket because if I did, pretty soon I would have to let everyone in without a ticket, which would be a disaster." Which fallacy is committed in this example? 4. "90% of students in my class have laptops, so 90% of the students at this school have laptops." What type of argument is this? 5. "Studies show that the more people spend on clothes, the more they spend on food. So buying clothes must make people hungry." What is an argument? 6. When presenting an objection to your argument, why is it important to select the strongest objection possible? 7. Which of these are good methods of making sure that your argumentative essay is properly understood? 8. Which fallacy attacks a person's position based on a distortion of their actual views? 9. "Since Tom is not a Democrat, he must be a Republican." Why does this argument commit a false dilemma? 10. Why is it important to be charitable to opposing views in argumentative essays? 11. "You should be on FaceSpace because pretty much everyone says you should." 12. "Every time I bring my computer to the guest room, the internet stops working. There must be a problem with the wifi reaching the guest room." 13. What is a subargument? 14. "It is wrong to plagiarize because it is using someone else's words as if they were your own." What additional premise would best support the reasoning used? 15. Regarding standard form arguments, which of the following are true? 16. Which of these is important to determing if an appeal to authority is strong? 17. What is the main goal of an argumentative essay? 18. When does an ad hominem fallacy occur? 19. Which of these are true of inductive arguments? 20. "We should not hire this person because he has the same last name as the previous person we hired, who was terrible." 21. Why is it important to present objections to your argument? 22. "I am going to get a toothache because the card that you sent me is so sweet!" 23. Place the steps of the hypothetico-deductive method in the proper order. 24. "Capital punishment is unjust because its methods are discriminatory, and it kills innocent people." 25. Inductive arguments that greatly increase the likelihood of their conclusions being true are called what? 26. What is a valid argument? 27. Stephen Toulmin's argument model contains which of the following elements? 28. The principle of accuracy requires which of the following? 29. What is the principle of charity?
