PHIL 347 Week 4 Checkpoint Quiz - Summer Semester

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PHIL 347 Critical Reasoning

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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: