Part 2: Answer the following questions by writing RELEVANCE if the question is p
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Question
Part 2: Answer the following questions by writing RELEVANCE if the question is primarily a matter of relevance, or INDUCTION if it describes a matter of Induction. (2 points each, 16 total)
1. ______________________When someone says that you should do something because that is what loyalty requires, that is a matter of… 1. _____________________ When someone treats your feelings and emotions as if they were reasons in an argument, that is a matter of…
2. ______________________When someone says that you should believe something because an expert said so, that is a matter of…
3. ______________________When someone says a person’s negative characteristics matter to a conclusion, but they actually don’t, that is a matter of…
4. _____________________When unacknowledged assumptions are key to assessing the strength of an argument (such as when we evaluate an authority, or when we wonder if in an inference from a sample we are getting the “whole story”), we are working with…
5. _____________________When you find yourself making on the spot superstitions (lucky pen, unlucky breakfast, the printer paper that always gets an A), you are probably doing lousy…
6. _____________________ A lot of “inspirational” stories are designed to motivate us by telling us how people who are supposedly in similar circumstances to our own were able to succeed with very few resources. When we are supposed to take courage and direction from these kinds of stories, and say that if they can do it, so can we, sometimes a fallacy is committed. Is that fallacy a matter of relevance or induction?
7. _____________________ There is a kind of fallacy that is sometimes involved in psychological catastrophizing – when we think that taking a certain step is certain to set us on the road to ruin (not getting an A sets us on the road to having to leave school, having a single ice cream means we will have more and more lapses until our diet is ruined). Is that a matter of relevance or induction?
Explanation / Answer
a. Relevance as loyalty is closely related to actions 1. B. induction as emotions give rise to arguments Relevance as the relation is shown Relevance as relation is shown Induction as one thing gives rise to other Induction as one thing gives rise to other Relavance as closeness is shown between what we see and do Induction as one thing gives rise to another