Final Exam (Phil 201) Question and
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Philosophy - correct answer ✔Is the search for answers to life deepest
questions, using primarily reason and reflection.
Ethics - correct answer ✔The study of right and wrong and good and bad
Two parts of an argument - correct answer ✔1.) Premises
2.) Conclusion
Validity (and 2 misconceptions) - correct answer ✔-It's VALID if the premises
and conclusion are true.
-It's INVALID if the premises are false.
An argument is sound - correct answer ✔1) The argument is valid
2) the premises are true
How to debate with someone - correct answer ✔1) Clarify the claim (whats
your point)
2) Argue for/against the claim
3 important points about logic: - correct answer ✔1) If you believe the
premises and you believe the argument is valid, then you should believe the
conclusion.
2) If you believe the conclusion, you should act (and so live) accordingly.
,3) To attack an argument, you must attack either the validity or the truth of the
premises.
A conditional sentence is any sentence with an - correct answer ✔IF and a
THEN
4 argument forms - correct answer ✔1) Modus Pondus
2) Modus Tollens
3) Denying the Antecedent
4) Affirming the Consequent
Typical pro-life argument - correct answer ✔1) If the fetus is a person, then it
has a right to life.
2) The fetus is a person.
3) So the fetus has a right to life.
4) If the fetus has the right to life, then it has the right not to be aborted even if
this conflicts with the mother's right to choose what happens to her baby.
5) The fetus has the right not to be aborted even if this conflicts with the
mother's right to choose what happens to her body.
-Argument Form: Modus Pondus
Argument that fetuses are persons:(2) - correct answer ✔2a.) Toddlers are
persons.
, 2b). There is no morally relevant difference between toddlers and fetuses that
disqualifies fetuses from counting as persons. (SLED argument)
2) Therefore, fetuses are persons.
S-L-E-D - correct answer ✔S: Size
L: Level of Development
E: Environment
D: Degree of Dependency
Violinist Case - correct answer ✔You've been captured by the society music
lovers. You look over to your left and you find that your kidney is plugged in by
a cord to a violinist and you're told if you unplug from this violinist then he will
die.
The Extreme View - correct answer ✔Abortion is wrong even to save the
moms life.
Argument for the Extreme View - correct answer ✔1) To have an abortion in
this case would directly kill a child and to not have an abortion in this case
would merely let the mother die.
2) ?? (Direct killing always a murder.)
3) Therefore, abortion is wrong in this case.
Tiny House example - correct answer ✔In this case, the baby starts growing,
growing and growing until you get stuck and suffocated and die by the baby.
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Philosophy - correct answer ✔Is the search for answers to life deepest
questions, using primarily reason and reflection.
Ethics - correct answer ✔The study of right and wrong and good and bad
Two parts of an argument - correct answer ✔1.) Premises
2.) Conclusion
Validity (and 2 misconceptions) - correct answer ✔-It's VALID if the premises
and conclusion are true.
-It's INVALID if the premises are false.
An argument is sound - correct answer ✔1) The argument is valid
2) the premises are true
How to debate with someone - correct answer ✔1) Clarify the claim (whats
your point)
2) Argue for/against the claim
3 important points about logic: - correct answer ✔1) If you believe the
premises and you believe the argument is valid, then you should believe the
conclusion.
2) If you believe the conclusion, you should act (and so live) accordingly.
,3) To attack an argument, you must attack either the validity or the truth of the
premises.
A conditional sentence is any sentence with an - correct answer ✔IF and a
THEN
4 argument forms - correct answer ✔1) Modus Pondus
2) Modus Tollens
3) Denying the Antecedent
4) Affirming the Consequent
Typical pro-life argument - correct answer ✔1) If the fetus is a person, then it
has a right to life.
2) The fetus is a person.
3) So the fetus has a right to life.
4) If the fetus has the right to life, then it has the right not to be aborted even if
this conflicts with the mother's right to choose what happens to her baby.
5) The fetus has the right not to be aborted even if this conflicts with the
mother's right to choose what happens to her body.
-Argument Form: Modus Pondus
Argument that fetuses are persons:(2) - correct answer ✔2a.) Toddlers are
persons.
, 2b). There is no morally relevant difference between toddlers and fetuses that
disqualifies fetuses from counting as persons. (SLED argument)
2) Therefore, fetuses are persons.
S-L-E-D - correct answer ✔S: Size
L: Level of Development
E: Environment
D: Degree of Dependency
Violinist Case - correct answer ✔You've been captured by the society music
lovers. You look over to your left and you find that your kidney is plugged in by
a cord to a violinist and you're told if you unplug from this violinist then he will
die.
The Extreme View - correct answer ✔Abortion is wrong even to save the
moms life.
Argument for the Extreme View - correct answer ✔1) To have an abortion in
this case would directly kill a child and to not have an abortion in this case
would merely let the mother die.
2) ?? (Direct killing always a murder.)
3) Therefore, abortion is wrong in this case.
Tiny House example - correct answer ✔In this case, the baby starts growing,
growing and growing until you get stuck and suffocated and die by the baby.
