Discussion
The farmer's conclusion is properly drawn if the argument assumes that
*This question is included in NP: Practice Set 2 - Conditionals, question #4
| (A) | every honest farmer is poor |
| (B) | ... |
| (C) | ... |
| (D) | ... |
| (E) | ... |
| (F) | ... |
The solution is
Posted: 01/19/2012 04:35
Can you please explain how you came to that conclusion we are already told all poor farmers are honest so how are we making that assumption
Posted: 01/19/2012 10:47
Another one would be:
Cookies are either bitter or sweet and either cheap or expensive.
ALL cheap cookies are bitter therefore expensive cookies are sweet.
Unless an assumption is made 'every cheap cookie is bitter' we wouldn't be able to tell 'the expensive ones must be sweet.'
Niels
Cookies are either bitter or sweet and either cheap or expensive.
ALL cheap cookies are bitter therefore expensive cookies are sweet.
Unless an assumption is made 'every cheap cookie is bitter' we wouldn't be able to tell 'the expensive ones must be sweet.'
Niels
Posted: 01/19/2012 10:11
Melissa, we have one group of farmers which we'll split into two groups of poor farmers and rich farmers, now each farmer has a property which is either honest or dishonest.
Unless we make the assumption that only poor farmers can have the honest property it wouldn't make sense to claim that the rich farmers are automatically tagged 'dishonest.'
Niels
Unless we make the assumption that only poor farmers can have the honest property it wouldn't make sense to claim that the rich farmers are automatically tagged 'dishonest.'
Niels