“If anything is a trout, then it’s a fish. A dolphin is not a trout.” What statement (it can be either a premise or a conclusion) needs to be added to these two statements to make this a valid deductive argument?

How does subjective relativism imply infallibility?

What is utilitarianism?  Provide a specific example of how it can be used to verify the truth of a moral statement.

Attempt a refutation of this statement using a reductio ad absurdum argument: “People who get more sleep are healthier than people who get less sleep.”

“On Tuesday I was passed by a reckless woman driver.  On Thursday I was passed by a reckless woman driver, and on Saturday this happened again!  It’s clear that women just do not belong on the road.” This argument is best interpreted as an example of  ____________.

Suppose that you are asked to decide if a proposed policy for immigrants at the U.S. border is moral or not. What kinds of things do educated and informed people take into consideration when thinking about questions of morality like this?

Susan Haack acknowledges that scientists are fallible human beings who are not immune from bias. But she also notes that the natural sciences have had enormous success in understanding our world. What does she think is the secret of its success?

Your textbook states that “if a claim conflicts with expert opinion, then we have good reason to doubt it.”  Explain three reasons why this would be true.

On a 40-acre farm, a farmer is able to produce [a] bushels of    when she hires the woman wearing the pink shirt and the man wearing the blue shirt  . If she proceeds to hire the total production of the farm increases to [b] bushels. And, if she then hires output of the farm would rise to 2,200 bushels. What is the potential marginal product of the 3rd worker?   Please enter your answer as a whole number. Do not enter units.

Calculate the shape factor