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PHI 103 Course Success Begins / phi103dotcom

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.phi103.com<br>PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you have recently)<br>PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do a great deal in helping us understand our arguments)<br>PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz<br>PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive argument)<br>PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive argument)<br>PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper Outline Pro

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PHI 103 Course Success Begins / phi103dotcom

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  1. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom For More Tutorials www.phi103.com

  2. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Entire Course PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 1 (Consider an argument you have recently) • 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 QuizPHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive argument)PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 • 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.

  3. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 1 DQ 2 (Logic can do a great deal in helping us understand our arguments) PHI 103 Week 1 Quiz • 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. • Question : Which of these could be seen as a premise in an argument? • Question : A valid deductive argument, the premises of which are accepted as true, shows

  4. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 2 Assignment Final Paper Outline Pro Choice (Legalized Abortion) PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1 (Construct a deductive argument) • Final Paper Outline. Review the Final Paper instructions in Week 5 of the online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. • 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.

  5. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2 (Construct an inductive argument) PHI 103 Week 2 Quiz • 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. • 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

  6. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 3 Assignment Stereotype Paper PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 1 (Considering the fallacies discussed in Chapter Four) • Read Stereotyping Has Lasting Negative Impact: Prejudice has lingering effects,study shows and watch How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical Reasoning. • 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.

  7. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 3 DQ 2 (One rich source of fallacies is the media PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz • 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? • Question : "China uses too much oil. So they shouldn't develop their industry" may commit which fallacy?

  8. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 4 Critical Thinking Quiz PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 1 (Scientists design experiments and try to obtain results) • 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 • 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.

  9. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 4 DQ 2 (Mary is poor. She has not been able to find a job) PHI 103 Week 4 Quiz • 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 • . 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

  10. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 1 (Write two arguments in English) PHI 103 Week 5 DQ 2 (Imagine someone asks you what you have learned) • DQ 1;Write 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. • 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

  11. PHI 103 Course Success Begins/ phi103dotcom PHI 103 Week 5 Final Paper Legalized Abortion PHI 103 Week 5 Quiz • 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 topics are presented below as questions. The best way to develop a thesis statement • 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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