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The following assignment tests the student’s ability to discriminate real arguments from mere opinions, recommendations, or mere statements.
1. Read the 10 passages (see attachment)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.
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As we have seen, in formal logic, a good argument has true premises and a conclusion that follows from the premises, either necessarily or very likely. Use your knowledge of arguments to discuss the following situation: There is a trolley coming down the tracks and ahead, there are five people tied to the tracks and one person on a side track who are unable to move. The trolley will continue run and will kill the five people. There is nothing you can do to rescue the five people except that there is a lever. If you pull the lever, the train will be directed to the side track, which has only one person tied to it. Discuss your choices. Choose an option. And give a good argument to support your choice.
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Content Assessment Instructions: Read the 20 passages and determine for each one which fallacy is committed. Make sure that you explain why it is a fallacy.
This CA is timed at 50 minutes, and only one attempt will be allowed.https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/
Consider the following predicament, which is similar to that portrayed in the 1999 science fiction action filmThe Matrix: You are the science project of a high school being from an advanced civilization. You were abducted and your brain removed and suspended in a fluid inside a vat. All your feelings, thoughts, emotions, sensations, desires—in short, all your mental contents—are simulated by a computer. Just like in the film, your life seems normal to you, but in reality is just a simulation. Everything you think that you know is not true.
Considering this predicament, is it possible for you to have true knowledge of anything? Or are you destined to be forever the victim of a grand delusion perpetrated by the computer that stimulates your brain? What can you know for sure?