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• PHI 103 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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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

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• PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you
  have recently) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 1
• 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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• PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do a great deal in
  helping us understand our arguments) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 2
•  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?

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• PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz (Ash Course)
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• 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

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• PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper Outline Pro
  Choice (Legalized Abortion) (Ash Course)
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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.
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• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive
  argument) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 1
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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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• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive
  argument) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 2
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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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• PHI 103 Week 2 Quiz (Ash Course)
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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
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• 2. Question One way to make an
  inductive argument stronger is to

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• PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper (Ash
  Course)
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• PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper
• Stereotype Paper.
• Read Stereotyping Has Lasting Negative Impact
  Prejudice has lingering effects , study shows and
  watch How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical
  Reasoning.

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• PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the fallacies
  discussed in Chapter Four) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 1
•  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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• PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 2 (One rich source of fallacies
  is the media (Ash Course)
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• DQ 2
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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?

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• PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz (Ash Course)
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• 1. Question "China uses too much
  oil. So they shouldn't develop their industry"
  may commit which fallacy?
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• 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)

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• PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz (Ash
  Course)
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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.

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• PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1 (Scientists design
  experiments and try to obtain results) (Ash
  Course)
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• PHI 103 PHI 103 Week 4
•  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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• PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 2 (Mary is poor. She has not
  been able to find a job) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 2
•  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.

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• PHI 103 Week 4 Quiz (Ash Course)
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• 1. Question A good way to
  establish a conclusion as true, or probable, is
  to
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• 2. Question Logicians regard the
  following as the meaning of the word "argument."
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• PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1 (Write two arguments in
  English) (Ash Course)
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• PHI 103 PHI 103 Week 5
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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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• PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2 (Imagine someone asks you
  what you have learned) (Ash Course)
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• DQ 2
•  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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• PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abortion
  (Ash Course)
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• ? Argument Paper
•  For the Final Paper, you will identify a
  specific claim relative to one of the
  topicslisted 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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• PHI 103 Week 5 Quiz (Ash Course)
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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"?

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