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Homework #3, Com 204 spring‘18 Name________________________________________
QUESTIONS TAKEN FROM CHAPTERS 7, 8 & 11 AND SLIDES FROM THESE CHAPTERS
20 points~ due by Friday, May 18th; Please bring a hard copy to class
You may hand write on the homework if you do so clearly and cleanly. Otherwise, please type out—Don’t
forget your name. Make sure you pay attention to whether the question is asking for a type of reasoning or a type of
fallacy.
Consider this argument: The claim is: “Some high profile online dating websites are using extreme and unfounded
claims to attract clients.” The grounds are: Examples of promotional language, false profiles, statistics from scholarly
articles and surveys of those who have used these websites. “
1. In the above argument on the topic of online dating websites, what is the warrant?
a. Don’t go on these sites
b. These websites are being dishonest
c. These are examples of some online dating websites using extreme and unfounded claims
d. There’s only a few doing this
2. What kind of argument is the one described above?