WorksheetsPHIL109 09/20/22
Total questions: 4
Worksheet time: 2mins
Is the following argument deductive or inductive?
The triceratops looked a lot like a modern rhinoceros. Since the rhinoceros lives in Africa and Asia, the triceratops must have lived in Africa and Asia as well.
Deductive
Inductive
Identify the conclusion of this argument:
There have to be campus rules governing speech. Insults, slurs, and other verbal attacks can be an assault on people, causing pain and loss of dignity. And they do not contribute anything to education.
There have to be rules governing campus speech.
Insults, slurs, and other verbal attacks can be an assault on people, causing pain and loss of dignity.
Insults, slurs, and other verbal attacks do not contribute anything to education.
Identify the implicit premise in the following argument:
Because magnets aren't attracted to this can, I know it's not made of steel. Thus it must have been made from pure aluminum.
Magnets are attracted to things with steel in them.
Cans can be made from many different materials.
Cans made from pure aluminum are very common.
This can is either made of steel or pure aluminum.
What is the conclusion of the following argument:
Even if Meg can find her brush in the next two minutes, there still will not be time for her to brush her hair before the bus arrives.
There still will not be time for her to brush her hair before the bus arrives.
The bus will arrive in less than 2 minutes.
Meg cannot find her hair brush.
There is no conclusion because it is not an argument.
