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ASHFORD PHI 103 Entire Course For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument
you have recently) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 (Logic can do a great
deal in helping us understand our arguments)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   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
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 Pro Choice (Legalized Abortion) For
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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).
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a
deductive argument) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 (Construct an
inductive argument) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 2 Quiz For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype
Paper For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 thoseste
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the
fallacies discussed in Chapter Four) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Cons
idering 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 (One rich source of
fallacies is the media) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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)
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   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 be
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1 (Scientists design
experiments and try to obtain results) For more
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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 (Mary is poor. She
has not been able to find a job) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 4 Quiz For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 4.         Question
       Examining reasons and constructing
arguments can help in
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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1 (Write two arguments
in English) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2 (Imagine someone asks
you what you have learned) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
Abortion For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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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ASHFORD PHI 103 Week 5 Quiz For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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