Practice Quiz
Identify the parts of arguments: PREMISS/es and CONCLUSION.  Premiss is the part of the argument which gives rational support to the conclusion.  The conclusion is what is affirmed on the basis of the premiss.  This activity is designed to give students opportunities to become more familiar with the structures of arguments.  SCORES ARE NOT RECORDED!
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1.  The United States is a net energy importer (P1).  Therefore, it is a mathematical  certainty that the nation as a whole is better off, not worse off, with lower prices of oil (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
2.  The Food and Drug Administration should stop all cigarette sales immediately (P1).  After all, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
3.  Since comets are believed to have formed very early in the history of the solar system (P1), their composition sheds light on the evolution of the planetary system (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
4.  Every law is an evil (P1), for every law is an infraction of liberty (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
5.  It is likely that life evolved on countless other planets that scientists now believe exist in our galaxy (P1), because life very probably evolved on Mars during an early period in its history when it had an atmosphere and climate similar to Earth’s (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
6.  Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed (P1), for everybody thinks himself so abundantly provided with it even those most difficult to please in all matters do not commonly desire more of it than they already possess (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
7.  You need to vote (P1) because America doesn’t work if you don’t vote (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
8.  Males born into poverty are more likely to commit crimes as teenagers and adults than are more privileged males (P1).  So a boom in birth among poor mothers can be expected to exert upward pressure on the crime rate 15 to 20 years later (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
9.  The essence of our admirable economic system is to create wants as fast as, or faster than it satisfies them (P1).  Thus the improvement of living conditions, meaning greater satisfaction, is, by definition, impossible (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
10.  The investigation of supernatural phenomena lies outside the realm of science (P1).  Therefore, science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
11.  He who loves knows God (P1); for God is love (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
12. Because light moves at a finite speed (P1), looking at objects that are millions of miles away is actually looking at light that was emitted many years ago (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
13.  Wisdom is the principal thing (P1), therefore each one should get wisdom (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
14.  We forbear to judge (P1), for we are all sinners (P2). *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
15.  Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. *
2 points
Premiss
Conclusion
P1
P2
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