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Instructions for Question 2: 1. Evaluate the following arguments. 2. In your evaluation, state whether the argument is inductive or deductive, value or empirical, contains a fallacy or not (stipulate which fallacy if it contains one) and whether it is valid/invalid or sound/unsound. 3. Present your responses to all of the arguments in the form of the table below: Argument 1: P1: If Donald Trump is still named as President of the United States on his Twitter account, then he must still be the American President. P2: Donald Trump is not still named as President of the United States on his Twitter account. C: Therefore, Donald Trump is not still the American President. Argument 2: P1: Bird watchers argue that this riverside area should not be developed because there is a rare sort of bird in the vicinity, whose habitat could be destroyed. P2: But building homes on this land would provide for new jobs. P3: So many people’s lives have been impacted economically by the pandemic. C: Hence, I don’t think that the bird people have an argument against development. S - The study-notes marketplace Downloaded by: xoliswamdlamini | Distribution of this document is illegal S - The study-notes marketplace PLS2601 Jan/Feb 2021 CONFIDENTIAL Page 5 of 8 Write your evaluation in the form of the following table: Inductive or deductive? Value or empirical? Fallacy? If “yes”, which? Valid, invalid, sound or unsound? Argument 1 Argument 2 [1 x 8 marks = 8] QUESTION 3: ARGUMENT STRUCTURES: Instructions for Question 3: Complete the following table wherein you capture the formal structure of the following arguments. The format of the arguments should be along the lines of the following examples (but should be representative of the particular argument – do not simply write your response in natural language or in the standard form): If P then Q or: All P are M Q No M are S P  No S are P 3.1 No rain occurs in the desert, but some cities have rain. So, some cities must not be in deserts. S - The study-notes marketplace Downloaded by: xoliswamdlamini | Distribution of this document is illegal S - The study-notes marketplace PLS2601 Jan/Feb 2021 CONFIDENTIAL Page 6 of 8 3.2 If Nosipho passes this exam then she will graduate. Nosipho did graduate. Therefore, she passed the exam. 3.3 You are unhealthy, because if you were healthy then your blood pressure would be in the normal range, and your blood pressure is abnormal.