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Phil 1010, Critical ThinkingPaper Assignment Draft 2 [of 4]The second paper must do five things:1. Provide a resume of Cleanthes’s view.2. Provide a resume of Philo’s view.3. Standardize at least one argument made by Cleanthes or Philo. You may not use the argument standardized on the first exam.4. Determine and state what kind of argument you have standardized. Indicate whether theargument you have standardized is a deductive or an inductive argument. If it isinductive, indicate whether it is an analogical, statistical, or causal argument.5. Evaluate this argument(s) using the true premises and good form tests. You must find some flaw in the argument.As you complete this assignment, be sure to use the Guide for Finding, Standardizing, andEvaluating Arguments on pages 112-113 of Critical Thinking in College. [This guide is reproduced below.]Length: 750-1000 wordsThe maximum is a guideline. You may go over it without penalty. The minimum is arule. If you go under it, your grade will suffer.Guide for Finding, Standardizing, and Evaluating ArgumentsFinding Arguments1. Look for an attempt to convince.2. Find the conclusion.3. Find the premises.4. Review the following to make sure that you have correctly identified the conclusionand the premises: imperfect indicator words, sentence order, premises and/orconclusion not in declarative form, unstated premises and/or conclusion, text withmultiple arguments.5. Review the following to make sure that you have not incorrectly identified somethingas a premise or a conclusion when in fact it is not part of an argument: assertions,questions, commands, descriptions, and explanations.Standardizing Arguments6. Rewrite the premises and the conclusion as declarative sentences. Make sure that eachpremise and the conclusion is a grammatically correct declarative sentence. Rewrite the premises and conclusion as necessary to make them clearer but do notchange the meaning of the passage. Remove pronouns from the sentences andreplace them with the nouns or noun phrases to which they refer.7. Review any phrases you have omitted to be sure that they are not premises or aconclusion.8. Number the premises and the conclusion. Place the premises before the conclusion andinsert “Therefore,” between the premises and the conclusion.9. Compare your standardization to the original passage to make sure that you have notomitted any arguments found in the passage and to be sure that you have correctlyidentified the premises and the conclusion. Evaluating Arguments: The True Premises Test10. Check to see if the premises are accurate descriptions of the world. 11. Consider whether or not the premises are appropriate for the argument’s audience.12. Review the assumed premises to be sure that the assumptions are reasonable.Evaluating Arguments: The Good Form Test13. Determine whether the argument is a deductive argument or inductive argument. Adeductive argument claims that the truth of the premises shows that conclusionmust be true. An inductive argument is an argument which claims that the truthof the premises shows that the conclusion is likely to be true.14. Determine whether the premises are positively relevant to the conclusion. Look ateach premise individually to see if the truth of the premise provides someevidence for the truth of the conclusion. Look at the premises as a group to see ifthe truth of all of them provides some evidence for the truth of the conclusion.Evaluating Arguments: Checking for Fallacies15. Compare the argument to the list of fallacies on pages 92-105 to see if the argumentcommits any of the


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