Rounding Out Arguments
Exercise
Answers
- 1. Anyone who rides horses is a cowboy.
- Driving over the speed limit is wrong.
- It is raining.
- Olaf is an elf.
- Any time a person has a choice of who to take to homecoming, they will
take the person they like the most.
- I have looked at the watch in frequent intervals - much more often than
every 12 hours.
- Only those who have drank too much fall out of apartment windows.
- Mark is on Earth and is unassisted by any devices that help him overcome
the Earth's gravity.
- Any nation in which there is a large discrepancy between net worths of
different races is a racist nation.
- The water is at sea level.
- First missing premise: We should not allows policies that have the
potential of taking innocent lives, unless there is a very good reason to do so. Second missing premise: there is no very good reason to allow
capital punishment.
- First missing premise: We should not allow policies that take working
class jobs away from working class folks, unless there is some very good
reason to do so. Second missing premise: there is no very good reason
to allow immigration that would offset the harm done to working class
folks.
- Any fair economic exchange between consenting adults should be
allowed.
- Anything that privileges using a student-athlete to make money for the
college over that student-athlete's education should be banned.
- Any student who receives an F in a course should have studied more for
that course.