Description

PHI 103 Week 4, Topic 2 Exam 1

1. Question: The following is which account of knowledge?

2. Question: What is the name of this form of argument?

3. Question: The cognitive distortion called ‘discounting positives’ is when one claims the positive things one does or others do are trivial and inconsequential. This way one can maintain a negative attitude about oneself or others. E.g., if you did well at something and you continue to tell yourself that it wasn’t special and that anyone could have done it.

4. Question: The cognitive distortion known as catastrophizing is when one focuses on some of the worst possible outcomes and believes those outcomes are likely to occur.

Exam Continue up to 25 Questions Along With 100% Correct Answers 

31. Question: Sound arguments are different from cogent arguments because sound arguments can have conclusions that can still be false whereas cogent arguments must have a true conclusion.

32. Question: The primary purpose(s) of an argument is______.

33. Question: The following passage contains an argument that commits at least one informal fallacy. Name the type of fallacy committed. “The Russians have a natural talent for ballet, as you can see by watching Maya Plisetskaya perform.”

34. Question: One of the famous objections leveled against the JTB or Tripartite account of knowledge comes from_____.

35. Question: The cognitive distortion known as emotional reasoning is when one allows feelings to guide one’s interpretation of reality.

---

PHI 103 Week 4, Topic 2 Exam 1

1. Question: The primary purpose(s) of an argument is ______.

2. Question: A sound argument is one that is valid and ______.

3. Question: Determine which of the famous five valid forms is used in this argument:
“Either the ‘eye for an eye’ principle is interpreted literally, or it is interpreted figuratively. If it is interpreted literally, then the state should torture torturers, maim maimers, and rape rapists. If the ‘eye for an eye’ principle is interpreted figuratively, then it does not necessarily demand death for murderers. So, either the state should torture torturers, maim maimers, and rape rapists, or the ‘eye for an eye’ principle does not necessarily demand death for murderers.”

4. Question: The cognitive distortion known as emotional reasoning is when one allows feelings to guide one’s interpretation of reality. (True/False)

Exam Continue up to 25 Questions Along With 100% Correct Answers 

30. Question: ______ is an unjustified and uncharitable attribution of a repugnant belief to another person as a result of fallaciously concluding that because someone believes P, then that person must also believe Q.

31. Question: From the fact that Smith believes P, it doesn’t follow Smith also believes Q despite the fact that (i) you believe P entails Q or (ii) P does entail Q. The reason why is this. Even though Smith believes P, Smith may also hold one of the following propositional attitudes: (What conclusion follows?)

32. Question: If S believes in God (as opposed to merely believing that God exists), then ______.

33. Question: If P, then Q
If Q, then R
So, if P, then R — What is the valid form?

34. Question: P v Q
If P, then R
If Q, then S
So, R v S — What is the valid form?

35. Question: What is the name of this form of argument?