"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Reviewing Basic Logic Skills!

In addition to today's handout from Professor Trelogan at the University of Northern Colorado, another great resource is the Critical Thinking Web at Hong Kong University. For tonight's homework/review, comment by responding to the following:

Is there anything wrong with these arguments? Use "official" terms (e.g. deductive, valid, etc.) if you can.

* “Philosophy” originally means love of wisdom in Greek. If you are a philosopher,
you must have a lot of wisdom.

* “Art” originally means “to make”. So art is created whenever someone makes
something.

3 comments:

  1. 1.Inductive not very good.
    2.deductive unsound not valid

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  2. inductive but not good reasoning
    deductive and unvalid.

    agree with ^^

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  3. 1.inductive, but conclusion doesn't follow.
    2.Valid, but unsound.

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