A Concise Introduction to Logic, 11th Edition Solution Manual

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Exercise 1.11Exercise AnswersChapter 1Exercise 1.1Part I1. P:Titanium combines readily with oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, all of whichhave an adverse effect on its mechanical properties.C: Titanium must be processed in their absence.2. P:The good, according to Plato, is that which furthers a person's real interests.C: In any given case when the good is known, men will seek it.3. P:The denial or perversion of justice by the sentences of courts, as well as in anyother manner, is with reason classed among the just causes of war.C: The federal judiciary ought to have cognizance of all causes in which the citizensof other countries are concerned.4. P:When individuals voluntarily abandon property, they forfeit any expectation ofprivacy in it that they might have had.C: A warrantless search and seizure of abandoned property is not unreasonable underthe Fourth Amendment.5. P1: Artists and poets look at the world and seek relationships and order.P2: But they translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic images.P3Scientists try to find relationships between different objects and events.P4: To express the order they find, they create hypotheses and theories.C: The great scientific theories are easily compared to great art and great literature.6. P1: The animal species in Australia are very different from those on the mainland.P2: Asian placental mammals and Australian marsupial mammals have not been incontact in the last several million years.C: There was never a land bridge between Australia and the mainland7. P1: We need sleep to think clearly, react quickly, and create memories.P2: Studies show that people who are taught mentally challenging tasks do better aftera good night’s sleep.P3: Other research suggests that sleep is needed for creative problem solving.C: It really does matter if you get enough sleep.8. P1: The classroom teacher is crucial to the development and academic success of theaverage student.P2: Administrators simply are ancillary to this effort.C: Classroom teachers ought to be paid at least the equivalent of administrators at alllevels, including the superintendent.

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Exercise 1.129. P1: An agreement cannot bind unless both parties to the agreement know what theyare doing and freely choose to do it.C: The seller who intends to enter a contract with a customer has a duty to discloseexactly what the customer is buying and what the terms of the sale are.10. P1: Punishment, when speedy and specific, may suppress undesirable behavior.P2: Punishment cannot teach or encourage desirable alternatives.C: It is crucial to use positive techniques to model and reinforce appropriate behaviorthat the person can use in place of the unacceptable response that has to besuppressed.11. P1: High profits are the signal that consumers want more of the output of the industry.P2: High profits provide the incentive for firms to expand output and for more firmsto enter the industry in the long run.P3: For a firm of above average efficiency, profits represent the reward for greaterefficiency.C: Profit serves a very crucial function in a free enterprise economy, such as ourown.12. P1: My cat regularly used to close and lock the door to my neighbor's doghouse,trapping their sleeping Doberman inside.P2: Try telling a cat what to do, or putting a leash on him--he'll glare at you and say,"I don't think so. You should have gotten a dog."C: Cats can think circles around dogs.13. P1: Private property helps people define themselves.P2: Private property frees people from mundane cares of daily subsistence.P3: Private property is finite.C: No individual should accumulate so much property that others are prevented fromaccumulating the necessities of life.14. P1: To every existing thing God wills some good.P2: To love any thing is nothing else than to will good to that thing.C: It is manifest that God loves everything that exists.15. P1: The average working man can support no more than two children.P2: The average working woman can take care of no more than two children in decentfashion.C: Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more thantwo children at most.16. P1: The nations of planet earth have acquired nuclear weapons with an explosivepower equal to more than a million Hiroshima bombs.P2: Studies suggest that explosion of only half these weapons would produce enoughsoot, smoke, and dust to blanket the Earth, block out the sun, and bring on anuclear winter that would threaten the survival of the human race.

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Exercise 1.13C: Radioactive fallout isn't the only concern in the aftermath of nuclear explosions.17. P1: An ant releases a chemical when it dies, and its fellows carry it away to thecompost heap.P2: A healthy ant painted with the death chemical will be dragged to the funeral heapagain and again.C: Apparently the communication is highly effective.18. P:Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought toaim at some good.C: The good has been rightly declared to be that at which all things aim.19. P1: Antipoverty programs provide jobs for middle-class professionals in social work,penology and public health.P2: Such workers' future advancement is tied to the continued growth ofbureaucracies dependent on the existence of poverty.C: Poverty offers numerous benefits to the non-poor.20. P1: Corn is an annual crop.P2: Butchers meat is a crop which requires four or five years to grow.P3: An acre of land will produce a much smaller quantity of the one species of food(meat) than the other.C: The inferiority of the quantity (of meat) must be compensated by the superiorityof the price.21. P1: Loan oft loses both itself and friend.P2: Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.C: Neither a borrower nor lender be.22. P1: Take the nurse who alleges that physicians enrich themselves in her hospitalthrough unnecessary surgery.P2: Take the engineer who discloses safety defects in the braking systems of a fleet ofnew rapid-transit vehicles.P3: Take the Defense Department official who alerts Congress to military graft andoverspending.P4: All know that they pose a threat to those whom they denounce and that their owncareers may be at risk.C: The stakes in whistleblowing are high.23. P1: If a piece of information is not "job relevant," then the employer is not entitledqua employer to know it.P2: Sexual practices, political beliefs, associational activities, etc., are not part of thedescription of most jobsP3: They do not directly affect one's job performance.C: They are not legitimate information for an employer to know in the determinationof the hiring of a job applicant.

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Exercise 1.1424. P1: One of the most noticeable effects of a dark tan is premature aging of the skin.P2: The sun also contributes to certain types of cataracts, and, what is mostworrisome, it plays a role in skin cancer.C: Too much sun can lead to health problems.25. P1: It is generally accepted that by constantly swimming with its mouth open, theshark is simply avoiding suffocation.P2: This assures a continuous flow of oxygen-laden water into their mouths, overtheir gills, and out through the gill slits.C: Contrary to the tales of some scuba divers, the toothsome, gaping grin on themouth of an approaching shark is not necessarily anticipatory.26. P:If you place a piece of Polaroid (for example, one lens of a pair of Polaroidsunglasses) in front of your eye and rotate it as you look at the sky on a clear day,you will notice a change in light intensity with the orientation of the Polaroid.C: Light coming from the sky is partially polarized.27. P1: The secondary light [from the moon] does not inherently belong to the moon, andis not received from any star or from the sun.P2: In the whole universe there is no other body left but the earth.C: The lunar body (or any other dark and sunless orb) is illuminated by the earth.28. P1: Anyone familiar with our prison system knows that there are some inmates whobehave little better than brute beasts.P2: If the death penalty had been truly effective as a deterrent, such prisoners wouldlong ago have vanished.C: The very fact that these prisoners exist is a telling argument against the efficacy ofcapital punishment as a deterrent.29. P1: REM (rapid eye movement) sleep studies conducted on adults indicate that REMpressure increases with deprivation.P2: This would not occur if REM sleep and dreaming were unimportant.C: REM sleep and dreaming are necessary in the adult.30. P1: We say that an end pursued in its own right is more complete than an end pursuedbecause of something else, and that an end that is never choiceworthy because ofsomething else is more complete than ends that are choiceworthy both in theirown right and because of this end.C: An end that is always choiceworthy in its own right, and never because ofsomething else, is complete without qualification.Part II.1. College sports are as much driven by money as professional sports.2. The creation of a multilingual society is contrary to the best interests of all of us.

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Exercise 1.153. The competitive aspect of team sports is having a negative impact on the health andfitness of our children.4. Business majors are robbing themselves of the true purpose of collegiate academics, asacrifice that outweighs the future salary checks.5. The sale and purchase of recreational drugs should be legalized.6. Congress should not cut the National Institutes of Health budget.7. The religious intolerance of television preachers must not be tolerated.8. Patients should not be offered elective Cesarean section.9. Parents who truly love their children allow them to fail once in a while.10. Protecting the environment requires that we limit population growth.Part III1. Logic: The organized body of knowledge, or science, that evaluates arguments.2. Argument: A group of statements one or more of which (the premises) are claimed toprovide support for, or reasons to believe, one of the others (the conclusion).3. Statement: A sentence that is either true or false.4. Premise: A statement in an argument that sets forth evidence or reasons.5. Conclusion: The statement in an argument that the premises are claimed to support orimply.6. Conclusion indicator: A word that provides a clue in identifying the conclusion.7. Premise indicator: A word that provides a clue in identifying the premises.8. Inference: The reasoning process used to produce an argument.9. Proposition: The information content of a statement.10. Truth value: The attribute by which a statement is either true or false.Part IV1.True6.False2.False7.True3.False8.True

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Exercise 1.164.False9.True5.True10.TrueExercise 1.2Part I1. Nonargument (explanation)2. Nonargument; conditional statement3. Argument (conclusion: Freedom of the press is the most important of ourconstitutionally guaranteed freedoms.)4. Nonargument (illustration)5. Nonargument (piece of advice)6. Argument (conclusion: Mosquito bites are not always the harmless little irritationsmost of us take them to be.)7. Argument (conclusion: If stem-cell research is restricted, then people will dieprematurely.)8. Argument (conclusion: Fiction provides us with the opportunity to ponder howpeople react in uncommon situations, and to deduce moral lessons, psychologicalprinciples, and philosophical insights from their behavior.)9. Nonargument (statement of belief)10. Nonargument (report)11. Argument (conclusion: Any interest of the state in protecting the woman from aninherently hazardous procedure, except when it would be equally dangerous for her toforgo it, has largely disappeared.12. Nonargument (expository passage)13. Nonargument (opinion and piece of advice)14. Nonargument (report of an argument)15. Argument (conclusion: Economics is of practical value in business.)16. Nonargument (piece of advice)17. Nonargument (loosely associated statements)

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Exercise 1.22118. This passage could be interpreted as either an argument or an explanation (or both).If it is interpreted as an argument, the conclusion is: Most business organizationsinclude a credit department which must reach a decision on the credit worthiness ofeach prospective customer.19. Argument (conclusion: For organisms at the sea surface, sinking into deep waterusually means death.)20. Nonargument (temporal meaning of "since"; "hence" indicates an explanation.)21. Argument (conclusion: Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children.)22. Argument (conclusion: Atoms can combine to form molecules, whose properties aregenerally very different from those of the constituent atoms.)23. Argument (conclusion: The coarsest type of humor is the practical joke.)24. Nonargument (conditional statement)25. Nonargument (explanation)26. Argument (conclusion: Words are slippery customers.)27. Nonargument (report)28. Argument (conclusion: A person never becomes truly self-reliant.)29. Nonargument (opinion)30. Nonargument (expository passage and illustration)31. This passage could be both an argument and an explanation (conclusion: In areaswhere rats are a problem, it is very difficult to exterminate them with bait poison.)32. Argument (conclusion: Population growth has not been a steady march.)33. Argument (conclusion: Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess anddeficiency, but preserved by the mean.)34. Nonargument (loosely associated statements)35. Argument (conclusion: One form of energy can be converted to another.)Part II1. Nonargument2. Argument (conclusion: Social Security is not merely a retirement program)

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Exercise 1.2223. This passage is probably best considered a nonargument, but it could be rephrased toform an argument. (Possible conclusion: Something is wrong with our approach toeducation.)4. Nonargument5. Argument (conclusion: The Democratic Party is more concerned with achievingbroad happiness, while the Republican Party is more concerned with fulfillingselfishness.)6. Argument (conclusion: Treating cruelty to animals with the seriousness it deservesdoesn’t only protect animals, it also makes the entire community safer.)7. Argument (conclusion: Creating a third political party—the independent party—is agood idea.)8. Argument (conclusion: When women’s voices are silenced, the institutionsthemselves suffer.)9. Nonargument10. Argument (conclusion: Strong anti-bullying programs are needed to provide a meansto report bullying anonymously, to train all school personnel to take reports ofbullying seriously, and to offer workshops for children on how to respond to beingbullied.)Part IV1. Argument from example: An argument that purports to prove something by giving oneor more examples of it.2. Conditional statement: An "if ... then ..." statement.3. Antecedent: The component of a conditional statement that immediately follows theword "if."4. Consequent: The component of a conditional statement that immediately follows theword "then"; the component of a conditional statement that is not the antecedent.5. Sufficient condition: The condition represented by the antecedent of a conditionalstatement.6. Necessary condition: The condition represented by the consequent of a conditionalstatement.7. Explanation: A statement or group of statements intended to shed light on someevent.

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Exercise 1.2238. Explanandum: The component of an explanation that indicates the event orphenomenon to be explained.9. Explanans: The component of an explanation that explains the event indicated by theexplanandum.10. Illustration: A kind of nonargument composed of statements intended to show whatsomething means or how something is done.11. Expository passage: A kind of Nonargument consisting of a topic sentence and oneor more other sentences that expand or elaborate on the topic sentence.Part V1.True6.True2.False7.True3.False8.True4.True9.True5.True10.TruePart VI1. Sufficient: If something is a tiger, then it is an animal.2. Necessary: If something is not an animal, then it is not a tiger.Or: If something is atiger, then it is an animal.3. Sufficient: If a person drinks a Coke, then he will quench his thirst.4. Necessary: If a person has no racquet, then he/she cannot play tennis.Or: If a personplays tennis, then he/she has a racquet.5. Necessary: If a person does not heat water, then he/she cannot brew coffee.Or: If aperson brews coffee, then he/she has heated water.6. Sufficient: If someone steps on a cat’s tail, then the cat will yowl.7. Sufficient: If leaves burn, then smoke is produced.8. Necessary: If a person does not pay attention, then he/she will not understand alecture.Or: If a person understands a lecture, then he/she pays attention.9. Sufficient: If a number is exactly divisible by 4, then it is an even number.10. Necessary: If a person does not utter a falsehood, then he/she does not tell a lie.Or:If a person tells a lie, then he/she utters a falsehood.

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Exercise 1.320Exercise 1.3Part I1. Deductive (argument based on mathematics; also, the conclusion follows necessarilyfrom the premises.)2. Inductive (argument based on signs)3. Inductive (prediction; also, there is an inductive indicator word and the conclusionfollows only probably from the premise.)4. Deductive (categorical syllogism; also, the conclusion follows necessarily from thepremises.)5. Inductive (generalization)6. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise)7. Inductive (causal inference; also, the conclusion follows only probably from thepremise.)8. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.)9. Inductive (causal inference)10. Inductive (argument from analogy; also, the conclusion follows only probably fromthe premises.)11. Deductive (argument from definition)12. Deductive (disjunctive syllogism; also, the conclusion follows necessarily from thepremises.)13. Inductive (argument from authority; also, the conclusion follows only probably fromthe premise.)14. Deductive (hypothetical syllogism; also, the conclusion follows necessarily from thepremises.)15. Inductive (causal inference; also, there are inductive indicator words.)16. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise.)17. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.)18. Inductive (prediction)19. Inductive (causal inference)

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Exercise 1.32120. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise.)21. The use of the indicator "manifestly deduced" and the quasi-geometrical approachsuggest that this argument is deductive. Nevertheless the argument could beinterpreted as an inductive causal inference: Reasoning from the appearances to thereality behind the appearances.22. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise; this example mightalso be interpreted as an argument from definition--the definition of "refraction.")23. Inductive (prediction; also, the conclusion follows only probably from the premises.)24. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.)25. Inductive (causal inference: the dog's familiarity with the visitor caused the dog to besilent.)26. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.)27. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises.)28. Inductive (causal inference; also, the word "may" suggests a probabilistic inference.)29. Inductive (argument from analogy)30. Deductive (the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise.)Part II1. Deductive argument: An argument in which the arguer claims that it is impossible forthe conclusion to be false given that the premises are true.2. Inductive argument: An argument in which the arguer claims that it is improbablethat the conclusion be false given that the premises are true.3. Argument based on mathematics: A deductive argument in which the conclusiondepends on some purely arithmetic or geometric computation or measurement.4. Argument from definition: A deductive argument in which the conclusion is claimedto depend merely upon the definition of some word or phrase used in the premise orconclusion.5. Categorical syllogism: A syllogism in which all three statements are categoricalpropositions; a syllogism in which all three statements begin with the words "all,""no" or "some."6. Hypothetical syllogism: A syllogism having a conditional statement for one or bothof its premises.

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Exercise 1.3227. Disjunctive syllogism: A syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of itspremises.8. Argument from analogy: An inductive argument that depends on the existence of asimilarity between two things or states of affairs.9. Generalization: An inductive argument that proceeds from the knowledge of aselected sample to some claim about the whole group.10. Prediction: An inductive argument that proceeds from our knowledge of the past to aclaim about the future.11. Argument from authority: An inductive argument that concludes something is truebecause a presumed expert or witness has said that it is.12. Argument based on signs: An inductive argument that proceeds from the knowledgeof a sign to a claim about the thing or situation that the sign symbolizes.13. Causal inference: An inductive argument that proceeds from knowledge of a cause toa claim about an effect, or from knowledge of an effect to a claim about a cause.14. Particular statement: A statement that makes a claim about one or more (but not all)members of a class.15. General statement: A statement that makes a claim about all the members of a class.Part III1.True6.False11.True2.True7.True12.False3.True8.False13.True4.True9.False14.False5.False10.False15.FalseExercise 1.4Part I1. Valid, unsound; false premises, false conclusion.2. Valid, sound; true premise, true conclusion.3. Invalid, unsound; true premises, false conclusion.4. Valid, sound; true premise, true conclusion.5. Invalid, unsound; false premise, true conclusion.

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Exercise 1.4216. Valid, unsound; one false premise, true conclusion.7. Invalid, unsound; true premise, true conclusion.8. Valid, unsound; one false premise, true conclusion.9. Valid, sound; true premises, true conclusion.10. Valid, unsound; one false premise, false conclusion.11. Invalid, unsound; false premise, false conclusion.12. Valid, sound; true premises, true conclusion.13. Invalid, unsound; true premises, true conclusion.14. Valid, unsound; one false premise, true conclusion.15. Valid, sound; true premise, true conclusion.Part II1. Strong, cogent; true premise, probably true conclusion.2. Weak, uncogent; true premise, probably false conclusion.3. Strong, uncogent; false premise, probably false conclusion.4. Weak, uncogent; true premise, probably false conclusion.5. Strong, cogent; true premises, probably true conclusion.6. Weak, uncogent; true premise, probably false conclusion.7. Strong, uncogent; false premise, probably true conclusion.8. Strong, cogent; true premises, probably true conclusion.9. Weak, uncogent; true premise, undecided truth value of conclusion.10. Strong, cogent; true premise, probably true conclusion.11. Strong, uncogent; false premise, probably false conclusion.12. Strong, uncogent; false premise, probably false conclusion.13. Weak, uncogent; true premises, probably false conclusion.

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Exercise 1.42214. Strong, cogent; true premise, probably true conclusion.15. Strong, uncogent; false premise, probably false conclusion.Part III1. Deductive, valid11. Inductive, weak2. Inductive, weak12. Deductive, invalid3. Inductive, strong13. Inductive, weak4. Deductive, valid, unsound14. Deductive, valid, unsound5. Deductive, valid*15. Inductive, strong6. Inductive, strong16. Deductive, invalid7. Inductive, weak17. Deductive, valid8. Deductive, invalid18. Deductive, valid9. Inductive, strong19. Inductive, strong10. Deductive, invalid20. Deductive, invalid*To prove this, from the side between the two equal angles construct a perpendicular linethrough the other vertex. The resulting two right triangles are then congruent by theangle-angle-side theorem. Hence the hypotenuses of these two triangles are equal, whichproves that the original triangle has two equal sides.Part IV1. Valid argument: An argument in which it is impossible for the conclusion to be falsegiven that the premises are true.2. Invalid argument: A deductive argument in which it is possible for the conclusion tobe false given that the premises are true.3. Sound argument: A deductive argument that is valid and has all true premises.4. Unsound argument: A deductive argument that is either invalid or has one or morefalse premises (or both).5. Strong argument: An inductive argument in which it is improbable that theconclusion be false given that the premises are true.

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Exercise 1.4236. Weak argument: An inductive argument in which the conclusion does not followprobably from the premises.7. Cogent argument: An inductive argument that is strong and has all true premises.8. Uncogent argument: An inductive argument that is either weak or has one or morefalse premises (or both).Part V1.False6.True11.False2.True7.False12.True3.False8.False13.False4.True9.True14.False5.True10.False15.FalseExercise 1.5Part I1. All G are S.All cats are animals.(T)All Q are S.All dogs are animals. (T)All G are Q.All cats are dogs.(F)2. No C are E.No cats are dogs.(T)Some P are not C.Some animals are not cats. (T)Some E are not P.Some dogs are not animals. (F)3. No P are M.No cats are dogs.(T)All P are R.All cats are animals.(T)No M are R.No dogs are animals. (F)4. No I are P.No fish are mammals.(T)Some I are not F.Some fish are not cats.(T)Some F are not P.Some cats are not mammals.(F)5. Some P are W.Some animals are dogs.(T)No W are T.No dogs are fish.(T)No P are T.No animals are fish.(F)6.All S are T.All dogs are mammals.(T)All S are M.All dogs are animals.(T)All M are T.All animals are mammals. (F)7. No P are H.No dogs are fish.(T)No C are H.No mammals are fish.(T)No P are C.No dogs are mammals. (F)

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