Short-Answer Questions
1. (1 pt.) Create a complete or indirect truth table of the following argument. Specify whether it’s valid or invalid and explain why.
AvB
B ⊃ C
C
2. (1 pt.) Create a complete or indirect truth table of the following argument. Specify whether it’s valid or invalid and explain why.
∼ (A v B)
∼ A ⊃∼ C
∼ C∙ ∼ B
3. (1 pt.) Create a complete or indirect truth table of the following argument. Specify whether it’s valid or invalid and explain why.
A ≡ B
A ⊃ (B ⊃ C)
B ⊃ (A ⊃ C)
4. (1 pt.) Ask a question about A) the reading itself OR B) how to apply the ideas from the reading to everyday life.
Long-Answer Prompt
5. (2 pts.) Choose a position on a controversial issue—abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, death penalty, drug legalization, gun regulation, war, immigration, LGBTQ rights, animal rights, etc.—and think of a simple argument for it (it doesn’t have to be good and you don’t have to agree with it). State it in normal language and then translate the simple and complex claims into symbolic propositional logic. Use at least two different operators.
