[MODR 1770] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (11 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Modes Of Reasoning
• Course: MODR 1770
• Professor: Robert Tordoff

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Using the criteria for assessing inference-to-the-best-explanation arguments, assess each argument in terms of strength-very strong, strong, weak, or very weak- and. Explain why you assess it was that way: fati(cid:373)a(cid:859)s (cid:272)a(cid:396) (cid:449)as fou(cid:374)d u(cid:374)lo(cid:272)ked a(cid:374)d pa(cid:396)ked (cid:271)y the side of the (cid:396)oad. Her purse and cell phone were untouched inside the car. Last week, two other people disappeared in the same area. Then two days later, they turned up and reported that they had be abducted by aliens. There have been two other such cases in the area in the past six months. Car could have been stolen, she could be at work. E(cid:373)pi(cid:396)i(cid:272)al, (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptual, a(cid:272)(cid:272)epta(cid:271)ility, (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e (do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)o(cid:396)(cid:396)y a(cid:271)out these) Test 2: argument evaluation test (module 4, 5-generalization, causal arguments, inference to the best explanation (cid:894)most plausible way (cid:895), arguments of analogy) When i ask you for an argument; valid is the same thing as deductive. Know the rules of inference, try to memorize these;