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Now consider the following argument:

Historically the stock market goes up when there is bad news on unemployment. The latest statistics show the unemployment rate is skyrocketing so this could be a good time to buy stocks.

The arguments target is:

Bad news on unemployment

The stock market in the past when there is bad news on unemployment

The stock market now

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Question 75 pts

Consider the following argument:

A 35 percent approval rating? Those polls are rigged by the liberal media. Most of the people I know say the man ought to be given a third term.

The argument is:

An argument by analogy

An Inductive Generalization

A Deductive Argument

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Question 85 pts

Consider the following argument:

I've been to at least 20 Disney movies in my lifetime, and not one of them has been especially violent. I guess the Disney people just don't make violent movies.

The arguments target is:

The 20 Disney Movies the Speaker has seen

Being Nonviolent

All Disney Movies

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Question 95 pts

Consider the following Causal Claim:

All of a sudden he's all Let's go to Beano's for a change. Right. Am I supposed to think it's just coincidence his old girlfriend started working there?

This is an example of:

Common Thread reasoning

Relevant Difference reasoning

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Question 105 pts

Consider the following causal claim:

OAXACA, Mexico (AP)-Considered by many to be Mexico's culinary capital, this city took on McDonald's and won, keeping the hamburger giant out of its colonial plaza by passing around tamales in protest

The effect is:

Passing around tamales in protest

Taking on McDonald's

Keeping McDonald's out of the colonial plaza

Answer 1

1. The stock market now

2.An Inductive Generalisation

An inductive generalization refers to an argument that uses evidence to make a claim. Inductive reasoning has the scope in which the conclusion may turn out to be false, even if all of the premises are true.

3.Being Nonviolent

4. Common thread reasoning

Common thread reasoning refers to when we link a cause to the feature in question and consider that to be the only relevant common thread among possible causes of the feature in question.

5.Keeping McDonald's out of the colonial plaza