Answer each question in this format _________Is the argument Valid (V), Cogent (
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Question
Answer each question in this format
_________Is the argument Valid (V), Cogent (C), or Ill-Formed (IF)?
1.________ 2.____________Are the premises TRUE (T), FALSE (F), or do you SUSPEND JUDGMENT (SJ)?
_________ Is the argument Deductively Strong (DS), Inductively Strong (IS), or Weak (W)?
If it is weak, why? ______________________________________________________________________
A. 1. Human cloning techniques are a medical method for assisting people to have children. 2. If something is a medical method for assisting people to have children, then people have a right to it. ---------- 3. Therefore, people have a right to human cloning techniques.
B. 1. Therapeutic cloning is a technique for growing tissues and organs, but not whole organisms, for medical treatment. 2. Many people would benefit from having their tissues or organs cloned for transplantation. 3. If therapeutic cloning research is controlled carefully the harms can be kept to a minimum. 4. If a there is a technique that would benefit many people, and one where careful controls can keep the harms to a minimum, then we should develop it. --------- 5. Therefore, we should develop therapeutic cloning techniques.
C. 1. If a person wants to be happy, then they should pursue a stable, married relationship. 2. George Clooney is pursuing a stable, married relationship. ----------------------- 3. Therefore, George Clooney wants to be happy.
D. 1. All of Sandra Bullock’s movies are lame. 2. Sandra Bullock has a new movie out. ---------------------- 3. Therefore, Sandra Bullock's new movie is lame.
E. 1. If an action does not hurt another person, then a person has a legal and moral right to do it. 2. A fetus during the first trimester is not a person. 3. Getting an abortion during the first trimester is an action that does not hurt another person. ------------------- 4. Therefore, a person has a legal and moral right to get an abortion (during the first trimester.)
F. 1. Most of the time when people give testimony about extraordinary and important things that they have seen they don't lie. 2. People give testimony about Bigfoot, which is an extraordinary and important thing that they have seen. --------------- 3. Therefore, people are not lying about seeing Bigfoot.
G. 1. If you eat right and exercise then it will improve your health and prolong your life. 2. You want to improve your health and prolong your life. ------ 3. Therefore, you should eat right and exercise.
H. 1. The vast majority of people believe that God exists. 2. Most of the time, when the vast majority of people believe something, it is true. -------- 3. So, it is true that God exists.
I. 1. Most of the pop music stars who become popular very quickly and disappear fast are not talented. 2. Ashley Simpson is a pop music star who became popular very quickly and disappeared fast. -------------- 3. Therefore, Ashley Simpson is not talented.
J. 1. Violent media (television, movies, and music) has a negative effect on people who are regularly exposed to it. 2. Violent media does not have any other redeeming values. 3. If something has negative effects on people who are regularly exposed to it and no other redeeming values, then we will benefit from banning it. --------------- 4. So, we will benefit from banning violent media.
K. 1. If a being is omnipotent, then it has the power to eliminate evil. 2. If a being is omniscient, then it knows about evil. 3. If a being is infinitely good, then it has the desire to eliminate evil. 4. If a being has the power, the knowledge and the desire to eliminate evil, then there would be no evil in the world. 5. But there is evil in the world. ----------- 6. Therefore, there is not a being that is omnipotent, omniscient, and infinitely good.
L. 1. All people have the capacity to kill. 2. All people who have the capacity to kill should avoid having loaded guns around the house. ------------ 3. Therefore, all people should avoid having loaded guns around the house.
Explanation / Answer
A)
Argument is Cogent
Premises are true
Argument is inductively strong
B)
Argument is valid
Premises are true
Argument is deductively strong
C)
Argument is Ill formed
Suspend Judgement
Argument is weak because second premises can not be taken as base for first. Pursuing a stable, married relationship is not the only condition of being happy.
Author's Note : Please be specific to the question that need to be answered.