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Short Answer You can only receive credit for what you say.  So, please ensure that you provide clear, relevant and detailed answers, written in complete sentences.   Explain what Cassam thinks about how reasonable it is to believe a conspiracy theory.  Explain how he explains why people come to believe conspiracy theories.  Finally explain what he thinks should be done for people who believe conspiracy theories.

Fill in the Blanks   An argument that starts with a fact (or observation) and ultimately concludes that the fact counts as evidence for the best explanation of that fact is known as a(n) __________________.

True/False   A good argument is one in which the premises make it rational to believe the conclusion with the same confidence that the person advancing the argument intends the conclusion to be accepted.

Argument Evaluation First, say how strong the support relation is between the premises and conclusion. Second, explain why the support relation has the strength (or lack thereof) that it has.  If the support is weak and the argument is fallacious, say what fallacy is involved and explain why that fallacy is being committed.   (P1)    Everyone at Chess Club said that white moves first at the beginning of a chess match. (C)     So white probably moves first.

True/False   Some fallacious arguments have true conclusions.

Correct any errors in the following sentences. Write complete sentences. Number your sentences.  Came to this country was a dream come true. I don’t think that get a lot of money is a good goal in life. Attending a university help people to get a better job.  I think that study is an important part of the job. My favorite thing is meet my friends after class. Do what you love is the key to success. No matter how hard you working, your success depends on do what you love. When you love your job, you are totally committedto do your best. You won’t mind work extra hard when something difficult get in your way.

Consider the following PySpark scriptline 1: logsDF = spark.read.text(“/loudacre/weblogs/logfile”)line 2: htmllogsDF = logsDF.filter(logsDF.value.contains(“html”))line 3: htmllogsDF.show()line 4: htmllogsDF.count()Which of the following statements is TRUE about the execution of the above script?

Which of the following PySpark Dataframe APIs does NOT result in data shuffling between cluster nodes:

Which of the following Linux commands can be used to extract and sort all lines containing “big data” in a text file named “file”?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of Spark DataFrame over Spark RDD?