2. Premise: If I smoke, I will get lung cancer
Minor: I do not smoke
Conclusion: Therefor I will not get lung cancer
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4. A. This argument is valid and unsound because if you were to smoke cigarettes it could lead do lung cancer, but if you do not smoke you can still get lung cancer. This means it is valid, but it is not a sound argument.
5. If I smoke cigarettes I will get lung cancer.
6. A. It makes sense in math but does not make sense in real life because you can still get lung cancer if without smoking cigarettes
B. It did have a solution in math, but does not make sense in real life.
C. I think using truth tables and tautologies makes sense, because you can create an argument for any statement, even if it really doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
7. It makes sense because relatives and close people to me have gotten lung cancer from smoking cigarettes.
8. My argument is not a fallacy, it is a proven fact.
9. This exercise definitely helped me think about media for critically, this is because it helped me to realize that any argument can be turned false, or any false argument can be proved true. I almost convinced myself that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer because of the exercise!
Thought it was interesting that two people in our group did this assignment on lung cancer and smoking. Good job!
ReplyDeleteeric,
ReplyDeletegood topic for this blog entry! definitely relevant, and you are right that the wording of things can cause us to think twice about what we read and how it makes us think. you did a good job with your truth table and your synopses. in the beginning, however, your initial argument is worded in the "all a are b, x is not a, x is not b" form, which is always INVALID because this is the inverse. somehow you corrected this when you went to do your truth table.
all in all, though, a good entry. =]
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