Consider the following passage: “After I washed my car, it started raining. It follows that if you ever want it to rain, just go ahead and get your car washed.” The passage above is best interpreted as committing which of the following fallacies?

Consider the following passage: “When did you realize that social media is nothing but a waste time?  Was it before you spent all weekend on it and failed your exam as a result, or was it after you lost your job for posting nasty comments about your boss online?” The passage above is best interpreted as committing which of the following fallacies?

Consider the following passage: “You are no more likely to be a victim of identity theft by shopping on secure internet sites such as Amazon.com or Ebay than by purchasing products in a traditional “brick and mortar” store like Target or Wal-Mart.  Therefore, if you are not shopping on these sites out of a concern for identify theft, your worries are unfounded.” The passage above contains how many propositions?

Identifying Fallacies.  Identify any fallacies in the following passages.   Be sure to explain your reasoning.  “Jessica claimed that the new environmental regulations would greatly benefit public health. But, of course she would say that: she’s an environmental activist.” Fallacy: Explanation:

Modify the extension and ambitiousness of the following claims based on the instructions provided.             1. Original claim: Footwear may be important.              Modified claim with lesser extension and greater degree of commitment: 

Consider the following passage: “We can’t prove that unicorns don’t exist, so it must be that they are roaming undiscovered in some remote forest.” Which of the following is true of the proposition “it must be that they are roaming undiscovered in some remote forest” in the passage above?

Consider the following passage: “Either we throw all drug users into prison, or else will fall just like the Roman Empire did.  Since we don’t want our society to fall like that, it follows that we must throw all drug users into prison.” Which of the following is true of the passage above?

Describe in words how you would diagram the following argument, including the numbering of each proposition and the identification of any assumptions upon which the argument depends. “Even though most people believe dinosaurs used the exist, they actually didn’t.  After all, no one has ever seen a living dinosaur, and all the fossils in museums are obvious forgeries.”

Consider the following passage: “The increase in global temperatures over the past century has resulted in the melting of polar ice caps. This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for immediate action to mitigate climate change and its devastating consequences.”  The proposition “This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for immediate action to mitigate climate change and its devastating consequences” plays which of the following roles in the passage above?

The conclusion to an argument is always found at the very end of the argument.