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Why is man less durable than the works of his hand, but because this is not the place of his rest? (William Penn)_______________ 5. Harrisburg is the capitol of Pennsylvania._______________ 6. Give me a call if you have trouble downloading the file._______________ 7. You'd better quit while you're ahead._______________ 8. Sign : Keep off the grass._______________ 9. How unfair!_______________ 10. Salt Lake City is a city in Mexico._______________ 11. Mother to child: Don't talk with your mouth full._______________ 12. Recipe: Stir occasionally to prevent sticking._______________ 13. What will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? (Matt. 16:26)_______________ 14. Marijuana should be legalized._______________ 15. Who let the dogs out?_______________ 16. Ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy) _______________ Part 2: Identify the premises and conclusions in the following arguments. CAUTION: Some of the arguments may have only one premise; others may have more than one. Total: 26 points. Example: Writing is revision because excellence emerges only through many cycles of writing and reading, performance and feedback. (Grant Wiggins, Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance, 1998) Premise(se): Excellence emerges only through many cycles of writing and reading, performance and feedback.__________________________________________________ Conclusion: Writing is revision._____________________________________________ No scientific hypothesis can be conclusively confirmed because the possibility of someday finding evidence to the contrary can't be ruled out. (Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn, How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 2nd ed., 1999) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Genuine moral integrity requires intellectual character, for bona fide moral decisions require thoughtful discrimination between what is ethically justified and what is merely socially approved. (Richard Paul, Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Know in a Rapidly Changing World, 1990) Premise(s): Conclusion: The study of logic increases one's ability to understand, analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments. For this reason, logic makes a vital contribution to the curriculum of the modern university. (C. Stephen Layman, The Power of Logic, 1999) Premise(s): Conclusion: Future generations of people have as much right to live a physically secure and healthy life as those of the present generation. Each of us is therefore under an obligation not to allow the natural environment to deteriorate to such an extent that the survival and well-being of later human inhabitants of the Earth are jeopardized. (Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, 1986) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Don't pick Alpine wildflowers--they really do look lovelier on the mountainsides. (Clem Lindenmayer, Walking in Switzerland, 1996) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ I think that the Miss USA contestant should withdraw from the contest being that she's an adulteress. (From a newspaper call-in column) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ The effect of crime on the quality of life cannot be measured simply in terms of the actual incidence of crime, as the fear of crime affects far more people than are likely to become victims and forces them to accept limitations on their freedom of action. ("Crime and Punishment," The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., 1990) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ It is much to be doubted whether the manifest advantage of changing an established law, be it ever so bad, outweighs the evil involved in the removing of it, inasmuch as a government is a structure of various parts so closely joined together, that it is impossible to shake one part without the whole body feeling the concussion. (Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Do not feed honey to infants under the age of one; their systems cannot digest it, and infant botulism may result. (Lisa Tracy, The Gradual Vegetarian, 1985) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. (Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed., 1989) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ A glance at the nutrition charts will show that the various legumes differ slightly in their nutritional profile. It's a good idea, for that reason, to eat a wide variety of beans and peas. (Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Bronwen Godfrey, Laurel's Kitchen, 1976) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ The idea that something that is artificial is necessarily bad and something natural is necessarily good is false. After all, tobacco, poison ivy, and the prickly cactus are natural, while chemical fertilizers account for a large proportion of the food grown in the world. (Eldon D. Enger and Bradley F. Smith, Environmental Science, 6th ed., 1998) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Get physical. People do better if they are touched and hugged regularly. (Edward M. Hollowell, "When Worries Go Haywire," Reader's Digest, February 2000) Premise(s): Conclusion:_____________________________________________________________ Part 3: Distinguishing Deductive Arguments from Inductive Arguments: For each of the following arguments, indicate whether it is best interpreted as deductive (D) or inductive (I). Total: 9 points. For example: 1. Most days in the year are weekdays (as opposed to weekends). There will come a day when a huge asteroid strikes the earth. Thus, the day a huge asteroid strikes the earth will likely be a weekday. ___Inductive___ 2.That Delbert Johnson is not a singer follows from the following facts: (a) all singers can carry a tune, and (b) Delbert Johnson cannot carry a tune. _______________ 3. So far, no one has ever swum the Atlantic Ocean non-stopor even come remotely close to doing so. It is unlikely in the extreme, therefore, that anyone taking this test will swim the Atlantic Ocean non-stop. ________________ 4. Dudley expects to get thirty miles to a gallon from the car he bought last week, but thats crazy. The car is a 1975 Belchfire with twelve cylinders and a 480 horsepower engine, and it needs a tune-up. ________________ 5. If a persons destiny were determined by the astrological sign under which he or she is born, then all persons born under a particular sign would have the same destiny. But homeless persons and millionaires, paupers and presidents are born under the same signi.e., people born under the same sign have strikingly different destinies. It follows that a persons destiny is not determined by the astrological sign under which he or she is born. ________________ 6. Leon and Leslie have five children, all boys. It is almost certain, therefore, that the child they are now expecting will be a girl. ________________ 7. Dusty Rhode drives a beat-up old Volkswagen, lives in a cheap apartment, and wears shabby, threadbare clothes. Its a good bet that Dusty does not have much money. _________________ 8. The Eiffel Tower is in London. London is in Germany, which is north of the Arctic Circle. It follows that the Eiffel Tower is north of the Arctic Circle. ________________ 9. All cobras are poisonous snakes, and all poisonous snakes are dangerous. It follows that all cobras are dangerous. ________________ 10. The human mind has no size, no shape, and no spatial location. The human brain has size, shape, and spatial location. Two entities are identical only if they have all properties in common. Therefore, the human mind and the human brain are not identical. ________________ Part 4: On a separate sheet of paper, write one original argument (i.e., NOT one from the book or the class lectures) of each of the following types. BE CREATIVE; AMUSE ME! 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