Exam 9: Deductive Arguments I Categorical Logic

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:Mr.Ashcroft isn't at home.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:Only banks can be savings institutions.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:There's nobody here except me.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:People duck whenever Richard picks up a golf club.

Reconstruct the following as a standard-form syllogism,and determine whether it is valid. In this country,nothing counts except success on the job.And since traditional women's work has not counted as a "job," such work has not been properly appreciated.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:It's not only chemical-free products that are organic.

Determine whether the following argument is valid by using either the diagram method or the rules of the syllogism. Only people who have lost a job can appreciate the difficulties the loss can cause.Some of the people in this room have lost jobs in the past,so there are people in this room who can appreciate the resulting troubles.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. Some family men are not gamblers,since no gamblers are prudes.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:Many Democrats are conservative.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. Nobody can fall off a bike like that and not be injured,so he's injured.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. Nobody gets married around Christmas except people who don't care about making their friends fight the holiday travel rush,and she couldn't care less about her friends.Draw your own conclusion.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. Granita is in a good mood.It's her birthday.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:Few voters think critically.

Reconstruct the following as a standard-form syllogism;then,determine whether it is valid using either a Venn diagram or the rules of the syllogism. All legislatures are more influenced by the legal profession than by any other,but it is legislatures that make the rules by which the legal profession operates.So the result is that the bodies that make the rules for the lawyers' profession are bodies most influenced by that very profession.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:There's nobody in the park except members of the Lucero family.

Determine whether the following argument is valid by using either the diagram method or the rules of the syllogism. All Xs are Ys. No Ys are Zs. So,no Xs are Zs.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. Robert Stewart actually thinks computers get in the way of true scholarship.He thinks they make people lazy.

Reconstruct the following as a standard-form syllogism;then,determine whether it is valid using either a Venn diagram or the rules of the syllogism. Only those courses that are in the schedule will be offered.Among the courses that will not be offered is History 105,History of Europe.Therefore,History 105 is not in the schedule.

Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion.Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid. The guys must have gone home early,since none of them were at the Bear.

Translate the following into a standard-form categorical claim:Not every gambler is a criminal.