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Unit 2 AS: Recognize argumentsAttached Files:						Unit 2 AS.docx							(123.069 KB)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.2.	Unit 2 DQ: What is a Good Argument? (Graded)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.3.	Unit 2 CA: Identify Fallacies- Requires Respondus LockDown BrowserContent 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/	Unit 3 DQ: The Matrix and Consciousness (Graded)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?

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UNIT 2 AS, RECOGNIZE ARGUMENTS UNIT 2 DQ and UNIT 3 DQ
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UNIT 2 AS: Recognize Arguments
1. A mammal is a vertebrate animal that nurses its offspring. Humans, cats and dogs are mammals, as are sheep, monkeys, rabbits, and bears.
Answer: This passage is not an argument, as there are no point of view, line of reasoning and evidence to support the ideas. This is merely a statement.
Missing Conclusion: Except mammals, there are no animals that nurse their offspring. 
2. If stem-cell research is restricted, then future cures will not materialize (P). If future cures do not materialize, then people will die prematurely.  Therefore, if stem-cell research is restricted, then people will die prematurely (C).
Answer: This passage is an argument, as there is a clear point of view that is reflected. The passage also uses a line of reasoning to present the final conclusion.
3. Mortality rates for women undergoing early abortions, where the procedure is legal, appear to be as low as or lower than the rates for normal childbirth (P). Consequently, any interest of the state in protecting the woman from an inherently hazardous procedure, except when it would be equally dangerous for her to forgo it, has largely disappeared (C).
Answer: This passage is an argument given the fact that based on premise; it presents a point of view and presents a final conclusion to support the main idea.
4. We as a nation have been guilty of far too many excesses for too long. We waste more than most in the rest of the world. It is time we sucked it in and tighten our belts. Our families, our nation and the rest of the world will only be better off.
Answer: This is not an argument, but rather, a statement given the fact this passage, although has a point of view, does not follow any line of reasoning to present final outcomes and thereby, is not based on a good premise and does not determine the conclusion.
Missing Conclusion: We can contribute to the betterment of the nation by reducing wastage.
5. Bear one thing in mind before you begin to write your paper: Famous literary works, especially works regarded as classics, have been thoroughly studied to the point where prevailing opinion on them has assumed the character of orthodoxy.

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