Exam 3: Evaluating Moral Arguments

Deductive arguments are:

Inductive arguments are:

A valid deductive argument with true premises is said to be:

What is the fallacy used in the following passage known as? Passage: If marijuana is legalized,young people will assume that smoking marijuana is socially acceptable,and that will lead them to give into the temptation to smoke marijuana themselves.And smoking marijuana can ruin their lives.Therefore,marijuana should not be legalized.

What is the fallacy used in the following passage? Passage: John argues that active euthanasia is sometimes morally acceptable.But we can reject out of hand anything he has to say because he's an ultraconservative.

These words-because,given that,due to the fact that,and for the reason that-are:

The form of this argument [If p,then q.p.Therefore,q.] is called:

In a valid argument,if the premises are true,then the:

In this argument-"(1)Premarital sex is morally permissible because (2)it makes people happy"-statement 1 is the ________;statement 2 is the ________.

In an argument,the supporting statements are known as ________;the statement being supported is known as the ________.

The utterance "Abortion is morally permissible" is:

What is the implicit premise in the following argument? Argument: Same-sex marriage is contrary to tradition.Therefore,it should never be allowed.

The form of this argument [If p,then q.If q,then r.Therefore,if p,then r.] is called:

What is the fallacy used in the following passage known as? Passage: Liberals believe in abortion on demand,which means that killing a baby is permissible any time at all.At conception,in the second trimester,at infancy-any of these would be appropriate times to kill a baby,says the liberal.

A strong inductive argument with true premises is said to be:

The fallacy of assigning two different meanings to the same term in an argument is known as:

This argument [If the dog barks,something must be wrong;something must be wrong;therefore the dog will bark.] has the form of:

What is a possible counterexample to the following moral principle? Moral principle: Lying is always wrong.

A statement is:

A statement asserting that a state of affairs is actual (true or false)without assigning a moral value to it is a: