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Quiz - What is a good argument?
Quiz questions:
1. Which of the following characteristics is NOT a hallmark of a good argument?
- a) Clarity
- b) Emotional impact
- c) Relevance
- d) Adequacy
2. What is the main difference between rhetoric and argumentation?
- a) Rhetoric is always manipulative, argumentation never is.
- b) Rhetoric aims at emotional persuasion, argumentation at rational persuasion.
- c) Rhetoric is used in politics, argumentation in science.
- d) Rhetoric is oral, argumentation is written.
3. Which type of reasoning is present when one infers the most probable explanation from an observation?
- a) Deduction
- b) Induction
- c) Abduction
- d) Analogy
4. Which of the following examples illustrates an argument from analogy?
- a) "All humans are mortal. Socrates is a human. So Socrates is mortal."
- b) "Computers work similarly to the human brain. Computers cannot solve certain tasks. So the human brain probably cannot solve these tasks either."
- c) "Either it is raining, or the street has been sprayed with a water hose. The street is wet. So it has rained."
- d) "If it rains, the street gets wet. The street is wet. So it has rained."
5. Which method is best suited to uncover hidden value assumptions in an argument?
- a) Gap analysis
- b) Change of perspective
- c) Counterexample test
- d) Conceptual analysis
Answers:
- b) Emotional impact
- b) Rhetoric aims at emotional persuasion, argumentation at rational persuasion.
- c) Abduction
- b) "Computers work similarly to the human brain. Computers cannot solve certain tasks. So the human brain probably cannot solve these tasks either."
- b) Change of perspective