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Consider the following example of inductive reasoning: In September 2019, each student in Mrs. Newsome’s first grade class (Hank James Elementary in Woolett, Massachusetts) was given three 2 oz. scoops of ice cream: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one bubble-gum tutti frutti.  2 of the 26 students preferred chocolate, 4 preferred vanilla, and 20 preferred bubble-gum tutti frutti.  Researchers concluded that, with respect to ice cream flavors, American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to chocolate or vanilla. Consider the following modification of the argument, and indicate if it strengthens the argument (makes it more likely that the conclusion is true), weakens the argument (makes this less likely), or has no effect.  Then explain why you think this is so: It was concluded that students at Hank James Elementary prefer bubble gum tutti frutti ice cream to chocolate or vanilla.

For the following argument: Select symbols and be sure to define them accurately.  [2 points] Put the argument into standard form as a hypothetical or disjunctive syllogism.  [4 points] Identify the form (e.g., “affirming the necessary condition,” or “denying the disjunct”).  [2 points] Determine whether it is valid or invalid.  If the argument has a missing premise or conclusion, complete the argument to make it come out valid, putting the added proposition in square brackets.  [2 points] If someone had been snooping around here last night, there’d be footprints, right?  Well, those are clearly footprints.  So someone must have been snooping around here last night.

For the following argument: Select symbols and be sure to define them accurately.  [2 points] Put the argument into standard form as a hypothetical or disjunctive syllogism.  [4 points] Identify the form (e.g., “affirming the necessary condition,” or “denying the disjunct”).  [2 points] Determine whether it is valid or invalid.  If the argument has a missing premise or conclusion, complete the argument to make it come out valid, putting the added proposition in square brackets.  [2 points] You say you’ve found out that your husband has been working deep into the night, night after night, on a project with a colleague from work?  That must come as a relief.  Because it was either that or he has gotten romantically involved with another woman

The following question and answer are written correctly in Spanish.  Choose true or false. ¿A qué hora es la clase de inglés?  Es a las cuatro en punto.  

Which is the correct translation for:  I do not like art.

Which Spanish question is needed to get this answer:  Yo soy optimista y muy trabajadora.

Consider the following argument: I thought I was allergic to cats, but twice this week I handled cats without developing a rash.  So my rashes must have been caused by something else. Now consider this claim: My rashes weren’t caused by cats. Indicate two things: Is the claim an unsupported premise, a supported premise, the argument’s conclusion, or neither a premise nor a conclusion (NPNC)? And is the claim being made explicitly, implicitly, or is it neither stated nor assumed (NSNA)?

Consider the following argument: The question isn’t whether great video games can be art, but whether they can ever be great art.  The argument against this view is based on the idea that all great art liberates a person for a time from the itch-scratching demands of petty desires.  And the thing to realize about great video games, the so-called “addictive” ones, is that they’re all about this sort of desire satisfaction.  They set up challenges that are fun to overcome — and that’s essentially what they are.  Playing them is all about making choices, sometimes fascinating choices, and moving from challenge to challenge.  But what makes these games great as games is what makes them mediocre at best as works of art.  Think of what it’s like to read a great novel, or listen to a great symphony, or watch a great movie.  You are swept up, transported, but transcended as well: you move beyond yourself and your self-centered concerns.  This is what we mean by great art.  If great games are built on itch-scratching, and great art delivers us from itch-scratching, then no great video game can be great art. Now consider this claim: The question is whether great video games can be great art. Indicate two things: Is the claim an unsupported premise, a supported premise, the argument’s conclusion, or neither a premise nor a conclusion (NPNC)? And is the claim being made explicitly, implicitly, or is it neither stated nor assumed (NSNA)?

Consider the following argument: The question isn’t whether great video games can be art, but whether they can ever be great art.  The argument against this view is based on the idea that all great art liberates a person for a time from the itch-scratching demands of petty desires.  And the thing to realize about great video games, the so-called “addictive” ones, is that they’re all about this sort of desire satisfaction.  They set up challenges that are fun to overcome — and that’s essentially what they are.  Playing them is all about making choices, sometimes fascinating choices, and moving from challenge to challenge.  But what makes these games great as games is what makes them mediocre at best as works of art.  Think of what it’s like to read a great novel, or listen to a great symphony, or watch a great movie.  You are swept up, transported, but transcended as well: you move beyond yourself and your self-centered concerns.  This is what we mean by great art.  If great games are built on itch-scratching, and great art delivers us from itch-scratching, then no great video game can be great art. Now consider this claim: Great art gives a person temporary respite from petty desires. Indicate two things: Is the claim an unsupported premise, a supported premise, the argument’s conclusion, or neither a premise nor a conclusion (NPNC)? And is the claim being made explicitly, implicitly, or is it neither stated nor assumed (NSNA)?

Match times appropriately.