TRIMESTRAL EXAM II-2019

INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC.

Name: ___________________________________________ Score: ________

Facilitator: Gabriel Figueroa. Total Points: 100
Level: 12th Logic HH Date:

General Indication:
Read carefully the following items, analyze and organize your ideas in order to
develop them in a clear and precise manner.
Remember that you have to show the steps to develop your answer. If your answer is
direct, it will not be validated.

I. Answer the following questions. ( 4 pts per exercise)

1) Determine what fallacies are.

2) State what cognitive meaning is.
3)     State what emotive meaning is.
4) An argument with good content can still contain a formal fallacy. Yes or no?
Explain.

5) Have you ever used a fallacy before and lost an argument? Have you ever tried
to argue with someone who was only speaking in logical fallacies? Provide
examples.

II. Identify the logical fallacy in the following arguments. After, explain the reasons by
which are fallacies.

a) In spite of what some say, the number of the poor is rising in America because
there is no evidence to suggest that number is decreasing.

6) Fallacy:

7) Reason:

b) American citizens must raise taxes to support schools. Without more money,
our schools cannot possibly do a good job.

8) Fallacy:
9) Reason:

c) You will get pregnant if you kiss a boy. I've seen Sally kiss boys three times,
and now she is pregnant.

10) Fallacy:

11) Reason:

d) You can be sure of getting the best watch posible if you buy a Tempus Fugit
watch, because you will be buying the world’s greatest watch.

12) Fallacy:

13) Reason:

e) Alien abductions must take place because no one has found any evidence to
disprove the eye-witness accounts.

14) Fallacy:

15) Reason:
f) Your honor, the defendant must be guilty because no one can prove his
innocence.

16) Fallacy:

17) Reason:

g) All immigrants have trouble with the law. They come from countries where
thievery and lying are considered art forms.

18) Fallacy:

19) Reason:

h) Everybody knows that you can not grow new neurons in your brain. You have
a fixed amount that decreases as you age.

20) Fallacy:

21) Reason:

i) Dinosaurs, like the T-Rex are certainly not warm blooded. It doesn't  
take much brainpower to see that these creatures are cold blooded reptiles.

22) Fallacy:
 23) Reason:
j) Millions of people drink Diet Coke every year so it must be the best soft drink
in the world.
24) Fallacy:
25) Reason:
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Conventions of English -3
1.  Grammar and sentence Many grammatical errors (more
structure than 4) exist and/or sentence
fragments or incomplete
sentences are apparent.
2.  Spelling Many spelling mistakes (more
than 4) exist either with difficult
words or the possibility of
careless spelling outcomes.
3.  Punctuation Many errors (more than 4) exist
using common punctuation
standards.
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Some grammatical errors (3–4)
exist and/or sentence fragments
or incomplete sentences are
apparent.
Some spelling mistakes (3–4) exist
either with difficult words or the
possibility of careless spelling
outcomes.
Some errors (3–4) exist using
common punctuation standards.
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Few grammatical errors (1–2)
exist and/or sentence fragments
or incomplete sentences may be
apparent.
Few spelling mistakes (1–2) exist
either with difficult words or the
possibility of careless spelling
outcomes.
Few errors (1–2) exist using
common punctuation standards.
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Sentence and grammar structures balance
simple, compound, and complex sentence types.
Writing is clear, focused, and creative all at the
same time.
Expert spelling techniques are apparent and
higher-level vocabulary is used and not
misspelled.
Punctuation is used to capture narrative tone
and/or effective punctuation is used to exemplify
feelings and attitudes.