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Philosophy 110-001 Summer 2020 Homework Assignment #2 Instructions • • • • • This assignment is due on Wednesday, July 29, by 11:59pm. Late assignments will NOT be accepted. The total possible marks for this assignment is 25. Each question is worth 5 marks. Each answer must be no longer than 10 sentences. You won’t receive marks after the first 10 sentences so be precise! Answers must be in your own words. Please type your answers using 12 point font and one inch margins. 1. Is the following argument valid or invalid? (Clearly state!) What is the argument form? (Name it and give the generalized form). Explain why the argument is valid or invalid. (Explain why the conclusion follows from the premises or why the conclusion does not follow from the premises. Make sure your explanation applies to this specific passage – i.e. Don’t merely provide a general explanation.) If you want to prevent vampires from drinking your blood at night, you should hang garlic around your bedroom windows. You hang garlic around your bedroom windows. So you want to prevent vampires from drinking your blood at night. 2. Is the following argument valid or invalid? (Clearly state!) What is the argument form? (Name it and give the generalized form). Explain why the argument is valid or invalid. (Explain why the conclusion follows from the premises or why the conclusion does not follow from the premises. Make sure your explanation applies to this specific passage – i.e. Don’t merely provide a general explanation.) If you hear scratching in your walls at night, then your house is haunted by an evil demon. Your house is not haunted by an evil demon. Therefore, you don't hear scratching in your walls at night. 3. What fallacy of irrelevance (genetic fallacy, composition, division, appeal to the person, equivocation, appeal to popularity, appeal to ignorance, appeal to tradition, appeal to emotion, red herring, and straw man) is in the following passage? Explain what that fallacy is. – i.e. Provide a definition. Explain why this passage is an example of that fallacy by specifically referring to the passage. The Democrats argue that there should be comprehensive gun legislation in order to regulate what types of guns you can buy. But if they take away your guns, how will you defend yourself and your family? They want to abolish the Second Amendment and take away your God-given rights! 4. What fallacy of irrelevance (genetic fallacy, composition, division, appeal to the person, equivocation, appeal to popularity, appeal to ignorance, appeal to tradition, appeal to emotion, red herring, and straw man) is in the following passage? Explain what that fallacy is. – i.e. Provide a definition. Explain why this passage is an example of that fallacy by specifically referring to the passage. There was no Russian collusion during the election!! I don't even know any Russians! Do I look like someone who would collude with Russia? Where are Hillary's 33,000 lost emails? Where did those disappear to? That's what everyone wants to know. 1 5. What fallacy of unacceptable premises (begging the question, false dilemma, slippery slope, hasty generalization, and faulty analogy) is in the following passage? Explain what that fallacy is. – i.e. Provide a definition. Explain why this passage is an example of that fallacy by specifically referring to the passage. Taco Bell is always accused of selling unhealthy food that will make you fat and raise your cholesterol. I’ve eaten Taco Bell every day for the past ten years, and according to my doctor, my cholesterol and body fat percentage are below the national average. This proves that all the criticism Taco Bell receives about its food is unwarranted! 2
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Question 1
The argument is valid. The premise is true, as well as the conclusion. It forms a logic and
an argument by cause. The premise says that if you want to prevent vampires from drinking your
blood at night, you should hang garlic around your bedroom windows. We are not interested in
knowing whether its true garlic scares vampires or not. We know that you hung the garlic around
your bedroom windows, not for decorations or to bring sweet odor in the room, but with
intentions of scaring away vampires. It does not matter whether the vampires got scared,
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