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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Entire Course

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1

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• PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you
  have recently)
• PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do a great deal in
  helping us understand our arguments)
• PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz
• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive
  argument)
• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive
  argument)

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• Consider an argument you have recently had with a
  friend, family member, manager, co-worker, or
  someone else. Identify the topic of the argument
  and present that argument in premise-conclusion
  form, identifying both the premises and
  conclusion.
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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz

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• Logic can do a great deal in helping us
  understand our arguments. Explain what advantages
  we obtain by studying logic in terms of improving
  our reasoning. Consider a debate over whether
  prayer should be allowed in public schools.
  Explain what logic can and cannot do. In other
  words, what kinds of questions and topics are not
  decided by logical analysis?

• 1.         Question        Which of these could
  be seen as a premise in an argument?
• 2.         Question        A valid deductive
  argument, the premises of which are accepted as
  true, shows
•  3.         Question        "You didn't like
  that book so you probably don't like to read" is
• 4.         Question        In the statement,
  "You didn't like that restaurant so you probably
  don't like to eat out," "you probably don't like
  to out" is the

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper
  Outline

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1

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• Final Paper Outline. Review the Final Paper
  instructions in Week 5 of the onlinecourse or in
  the Components of Course Evaluation section of
  this guide.
• Then, visit the Ashford Writing Center (located
  in the Learning Resources tab in the left
  navigation bar).
• The outline must containa Introduction with
  thesis statement.

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• Construct a deductive argument that is valid but
  not sound. Then, construct a valid deductive
  argument that is sound. Be sure to put the
  argument in premise-conclusion form.
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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 Quiz

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• Construct an inductive argument for a specific
  conclusion. Then, explain what you might do to
  make this inductive argument stronger, either by
  revising the premises or by revising the
  conclusion.
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• 1.         Question         "10 is less than
  100 100 is less than 1,000 consequently, 10 is
  less than 1,000" is an example of a
• 2.         Question         One way to make an
  inductive argument stronger is to
• 3.         Question         All sound arguments
  are valid, but not all valid arguments are sound.
  This means
• 4.         Question         Inductive arguments
  should never be characterized as

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1

•  Stereotype Paper.
• Read Stereotyping Has Lasting Negative Impact
  Prejudice has lingering effects,study shows and
  watch How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical
  Reasoning.
• Discuss three stereotypes you encounter in your
  own life and the effect thosestereotypes can have
  on others.
• This can be a stereotype you realize you
  havebeen guilty of holding or someone else.

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• Considering the fallacies discussed in Chapter
  Four of An Introduction to Logic, construct three
  different arguments that display distinct
  fallacies. Give an explanation of why each makes
  a mistake in drawing the conclusion it does.
  Review your classmates examples and see if they,
  in fact, commit the fallacy identified.

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 2

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz

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• One rich source of fallacies is the media
  television, radio, magazines, and the Internet
  (including, of course, commercials.) Identify two
  distinct fallacies you see committed in the
  media. Do you think it is more likely that you
  will not be fooled by these fallacies having
  studied logic? What do you think those presenting
  these arguments assume about the logical skills
  of their viewers? Is this a good or bad
  assumption for them to make?

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• 1. Question "China uses too much
  oil. So they shouldn't develop their industry"
  may commit which fallacy?
• 2. Question "Julie started
  carrying a rabbit's foot, then she won the
  lottery. The rabbit's foot must have caused her
  to win the lottery" commits a(n)
• 3. Question A person who is
  shown his or her argument commits a fallacy
  should
• 4. Question A fallacy is an
  argument that

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1

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• 1. Question Mrs.Orlof teaches two
  history classes, one in the morning and one in
  the afternoon. Yesterday she gave the same test
  to both classes. Anyone who failed the test must
  take a retest. Since a greater percentage of
  students who took the morning test failed the
  test than students who took the afternoon test,
  more of Orlofs morning history students than
  afternoon history students will have to take the
  retest.
• The conclusion above is not necessarily valid
  because

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• DQ 1 As stated in our text book scientists
  design experiments and try to obtain results
  verifying or disproving a hypothesis, but
  philosophers are the driving force in determining
  what factors determine the validity of scientific
  results. (Mosser, 2011). Karl Popper's
  philosophy of science uses modus as the central
  method of disconfirming, or falsifying,
  scientific hypotheses.

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 2

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 Quiz

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• Mary is poor. She has not been able to find a job
  and has two children she needs to feed. Assume
  Mary is forced to let her children go hungry or
  steal some food from a local grocery store. Which
  should she do? Construct an argument that
  supports Mary's decision to steal the food or an
  argument that shows why Mary should not steal the
  food. Critique the arguments offered by your
  classmates.
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• 1. Question A good way to
  establish a conclusion as true, or probable, is
  to
• 2. Question Logicians regard the
  following as the meaning of the word "argument."
• 3. Question A strongly supported
  claim in science should be regarded as

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2

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• DQ 1Write two arguments in English, one in the
  form of modus ponens and one in the form of modus
  tollens. Then, write the arguments in symbols
  using sentence letters and truth-functional
  connectives.
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• Imagine someone asks you what you have learned in
  your logic class and what you found to be the
  most useful information you learned there. Is it
  important for people to study logic? What kinds
  of mistakes might they make without having been
  exposed to a careful study of reasoning provided
  by logic? Offer your response to these questions,
  and compare your answers to your classmates'
  responses

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• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abort

• ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 Quiz

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• ? Argument Paper
• For the Final Paper, you will identify a specific
  claim relative to one of the topics listed before
  and defend it with as strong an argument as
  possible. These topicsare presented below as
  questions. The best way to develop a thesis
  statement isto offer an answer to the question,
  and then state in a clear and specific
  sentencethe basis for your answer

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• 1. Question The sentence "P ? Q"
  is read as
• 2. Question "P v Q" is best
  interpreted as
• 3. Question What is the truth
  value of the sentence "P v P"?
• 4. Question If P is false, and Q
  is false, the truth-value of "P ?Q" is
• 5. Question "Julie and Kurt got
  married and had a baby" is best symbolized as

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