PHIL 120 Timed Exam 3 2025/2026 Exam
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Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. The law does NOT expressly permit suicide
S2. ALL activities the law does NOT expressly permit ARE activities the law
forbids
(Source: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The missing
conclusion is: The law forbids suicide
,Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. Aristotle dedicated the second book of the Poetics to laughter
S2. IF Aristotle devotes a whole book to laughter THEN laughter must be
important
(Source: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Statements S1 and S2 are both premises. The argument is missing a
conclusion.
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1.IF there is no empty space THEN everything is one solid mass
(Source: Lucretius, On the Nature of Things.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Statement
S1 is a premise. The argument is missing a premise and a conclusion
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
,S1. IF quantitative data are as subject to cultural constraints as any other
aspect of science THEN they have no special claim on final truth
S2. I believe I have shown this (ie, that quantitative data are as subject to
cultural constraints as any other aspect of science).
(Source: Stephen Jay Gould, Mismeasure of Man.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing conclusion is: They quantitative data have no special claim on final
truth
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. NO enthymemes ARE complete arguments
S2. (so) This argument IS NOT complete
(Source: Copi and Cohen, Introduction to Logic) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing premise is: This argument IS an enthymeme
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. No one has ever seen reasoning or intelligence but in a human figure
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, S2. (therefore) The gods must have a human figure
(Source: David Hume, Dialogies Concerning Natural Religion) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Statement S1 is a premise and S2 is a conclusion. The argument is
missing a premise.
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. ALL love that is excessive ARE love that can harm the lover
S2. My love is excessive
(Source: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing conclusion is: My love that can harm me
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. IF humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy
THEN Man is NOT born to die
S2. Man is born to die
S3. Humanism is NOT right in declaring that man is born to be happy
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Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. The law does NOT expressly permit suicide
S2. ALL activities the law does NOT expressly permit ARE activities the law
forbids
(Source: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The missing
conclusion is: The law forbids suicide
,Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. Aristotle dedicated the second book of the Poetics to laughter
S2. IF Aristotle devotes a whole book to laughter THEN laughter must be
important
(Source: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Statements S1 and S2 are both premises. The argument is missing a
conclusion.
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1.IF there is no empty space THEN everything is one solid mass
(Source: Lucretius, On the Nature of Things.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Statement
S1 is a premise. The argument is missing a premise and a conclusion
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
,S1. IF quantitative data are as subject to cultural constraints as any other
aspect of science THEN they have no special claim on final truth
S2. I believe I have shown this (ie, that quantitative data are as subject to
cultural constraints as any other aspect of science).
(Source: Stephen Jay Gould, Mismeasure of Man.) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing conclusion is: They quantitative data have no special claim on final
truth
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. NO enthymemes ARE complete arguments
S2. (so) This argument IS NOT complete
(Source: Copi and Cohen, Introduction to Logic) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing premise is: This argument IS an enthymeme
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. No one has ever seen reasoning or intelligence but in a human figure
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, S2. (therefore) The gods must have a human figure
(Source: David Hume, Dialogies Concerning Natural Religion) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Statement S1 is a premise and S2 is a conclusion. The argument is
missing a premise.
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. ALL love that is excessive ARE love that can harm the lover
S2. My love is excessive
(Source: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
missing conclusion is: My love that can harm me
Sometimes a reasoning or argument is incomplete. It has a missing
premise or a missing conclusion. Is the following reasoning incomplete in
this way?
S1. IF humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy
THEN Man is NOT born to die
S2. Man is born to die
S3. Humanism is NOT right in declaring that man is born to be happy
