PLS2601 Assignment 2
Semester 2 2024 - DUE
September 2024
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1. Understanding Critical Reasoning: Answer True or False:
1.1 The outcome of this module is to enable students to identify, construct and evaluate
arguments. (2)
1.2 Critical Reasoning promotes dogmatic reasoning. (2)
1.3 The term ‘Critical Reasoning’ can be used interchangeably with the terms ‘critical
thinking’ and ‘clear thinking.’ (2)
1.4 Critical reasoning can also be understood as ‘informal logic’. (2)
1.5 Critical Reasoning does not enable thinkers to think critically and reflectively. (2)
2. Different kinds of writings and definitions:
2.1 Identify the type of writing in each of the paragraphs or statements.
2.1.1 Some people believe that even if you can get away with awful crimes on this earth
and are not punished by the law or your fellow men, such acts are forbidden by God,
who will punish you after death. So even when it seems to be in your interest to do such
a thing it really isn't. Some people have even believed that if there is no God to back up
moral requirements with the threat of punishment and the promise of reward, morality is
an illusion (Thomas Nagel – What does it all mean? p. 62). (2)
2.1.2 Arrange each of the arguments below in the standard way and say whether they
are valid. Try to keep track of how you decide whether each one is valid. (2)
Semester 2 2024 - DUE
September 2024
[Company address]
, PLS2601 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2024 - DUE September 2024
1. Understanding Critical Reasoning: Answer True or False:
1.1 The outcome of this module is to enable students to identify, construct and evaluate
arguments. (2)
1.2 Critical Reasoning promotes dogmatic reasoning. (2)
1.3 The term ‘Critical Reasoning’ can be used interchangeably with the terms ‘critical
thinking’ and ‘clear thinking.’ (2)
1.4 Critical reasoning can also be understood as ‘informal logic’. (2)
1.5 Critical Reasoning does not enable thinkers to think critically and reflectively. (2)
2. Different kinds of writings and definitions:
2.1 Identify the type of writing in each of the paragraphs or statements.
2.1.1 Some people believe that even if you can get away with awful crimes on this earth
and are not punished by the law or your fellow men, such acts are forbidden by God,
who will punish you after death. So even when it seems to be in your interest to do such
a thing it really isn't. Some people have even believed that if there is no God to back up
moral requirements with the threat of punishment and the promise of reward, morality is
an illusion (Thomas Nagel – What does it all mean? p. 62). (2)
2.1.2 Arrange each of the arguments below in the standard way and say whether they
are valid. Try to keep track of how you decide whether each one is valid. (2)
