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PHIL 1102 1st EditionExam 1 Study GuideLecture 2What are statements and arguments? There are differences between statements arguments, what are they? How can you recognize arguments? Be able to point out premises, and know what they are. How can you tell if something is an explanation and not an argument? Truth and logic analysis what are they? The differences between deductive and inductive arguments. How can identify deductive and inductive arguments. Be able to explain deductive arguments: validity and truth. Also be able to explain inductive arguments: strength and truth. Lecture 3Intension and extension what are they? How do we use intension and extension? Be able to distinguish intentional definitions like: synonymous definition, word origin, operational. What are the extensional definitions: Ostensive, enumerative. The different applying definitions: stipulative, lexical, précising, theoretical, and persuasive. Lecture 4 What are the guidelines for informative definition? There are eight of them. Cognitive meaning: language that is used to convey information. Emotive meaning: language that is used to express emotion or feelings has emotive meaning. Be able to explain factual and verbal disputes, when do they occur? The different diagraming arguments: a simple argument, convergent argument, linked diagram, divergent, and serial diagram. Lecture 5 Know what an incomplete argument is, it’s missing premises, a conclusion or both: this iscalled enthymemes. Rhetorical language the three different ways it is used: rhetorical questions, rhetorical conditionals, and rhetorical disjunctions. What is the main purpose of necessary and sufficient conditions? Also be able to define what necessary and sufficient conditions are. Lectures 6For this lecture we discussed informal fallacies and fallacies of relevance. What is an informal fallacy? What are the fallacies of relevance? Be able to tell what these fallacies are: argument against a person, poisoning the well, tu quoque, appeal to the people, appeal to pity, appeal to force, missing the point, appeal to unqualified authority, appealto nausea, genetic fallacy, and etymological fallacy. Lecture 7 Continuing fallacies with fallacies of unwarranted assumption: begging the question, complex question, biased sample, hasty generalization, misleading precision, false dichotomy, false dilemma, and false cause fallacies (coincidence, post hoc, common cause, and slippery slope). Know what the fallacies of ambiguity or diversion are: Equivocation, amphiboly, composition, division, straw man, red herring, and emphasis. Lecture 8 in this lecture we went over moral arguments and the naturalistic fallacy. What are valuejudgments? A claim that a particular human action or object has some degree of importance, worth, or desirability. Also be able to explain how value judgment is used. The six moral theories: Emotivism, egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, situation ethics, relativism. What are analogies and how do they connect to moral arguments? Be able toelaborate on naturalistic


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