Chapter 4
Quiz
- 4.1 Multiple choice questions
- Multiple choice questions utilising the core concepts. For example, students will be presented with statements quantified with 'all', 'most' or 'some' and then be asked questions about how probable a particular claim is assuming the original statement holds true.
- 4.2 True or false questions
- True or false questions testing the key concepts of the chapter.
- 4.3 Multiple choice questions
- Choose the best candidate for an implicit premise given the premises and conclusion provided. Your aim is to make the argument inductively forceful.
- 4.4 Multiple choice questions
- A series of arguments in prose where the reader is asked whether the argument is more charitably reconstructed as valid, forceful or neither.
- 4.5 Valid or forceful questions
- A series of yes/no questions where the reader is asked whether the presented argument is forceful (these arguments are either standard form or prose, and can contain multiple inferences and/or multiple probabilistic premises – valid arguments are among the samples).
- 4.6 Yes or no questions
- Identify the plausibility of various inductive inferences.
- 4.7 Multiple choice questions
- Identify the premise that makes the argument forceful.