PHIL 347 Week 4 Checkpoint Quiz - Summer Semester

Week 4 Checkpoint Quiz Instructions Required ResourcesRead/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 8, 9 Lesson InstructionsThe checkpoint quizzes are short assessments that will check your understanding of the terms and concepts from the reading. Time limit: noneAttempts: 1 GradingThis quiz will be graded based on correctness of response. Course Outcomes (CO): 3, 4, 5, 6 Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday This quiz was locked May 30 at 11:59pm. Attempt HistoryScore 50 out of 50 Score for this quiz: 50 out of 50 Submitted May 30 at 3:51pm This attempt took 406 minutes.   Question 1 5 / 5 pts Based on what you have read in the text, the lecture, and any other sources you find helpful to your understanding of deductive arguments, explain the structure of a deductive argument in your own words.  Your Answer: In a deductive argument, the speaker presents premises and says that if her premises are true than so must be her conclusion.    Question 2 5 / 5 pts Go to the box “Deductive Reasoning” (in the beginning of Chapter 8). Read the last paragraph there. Based on that reading and any other sources you find helpful to your understanding, describe the part that “rules, operating conditions, core beliefs, values, policies, principles, procedures, and terminology” (p. 159) play in deductive arguments. Your Answer: Rules, operating conditions, core beliefs, values, policies, principles, etc. act as the assumed truth from a set of beliefs. In an argument, these assumed truths of beliefs lead to a conclusion that must be true and cannot be false if our beliefs are true.    Question 3 2 / 2 pts In the introduction to Chapter 8, the text sets forth a specific definition of the term “valid” as it applies to deductive arguments. What is that definition? Your Answer: "If the assumption that all the premises are true makes it impossible for the conclusion to be false, that is, if the premises entail or imply that conclusion, we will evaluate that argument or inference as valid" (Facione & Gittens)   Question 4 2 / 2 pts Use the following template to create a valid Denying the Consequent argument example:  If_________________ then _______________ It is not the case that ______________________ Therefore, it is not the case that ________________ Your Answer: If I am sick then I will have a fever. It is not the case that I have a fever Therefore it is not the case that I am sick.    Question 5 2 / 2 pts Use the following template to create a valid Affirming the Antecedent argument example:  If_______________ then____________ ________________________________ Therefore _______________________ Your Answer: If I drink coffee then I won't be tired I drank coffee Therefore I will not be tired.    Question 6 2 / 2 pts Jack says: “I can enroll full time this semester, or I can buy a car. I think going to school full time is the better option for me, so I’ll have to put off buying car.” What name does