GSU CSC 2510 HW 1 Answers, Assignments of Computer Science

Download GSU CSC 2510 HW 1 Answers and more Assignments Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! Your Last_name, First_name CS 2510 Fall 2022 HW #1 Part 1. Exploring logical fallacies (Picture from http://www.fashionintime.org/furs-fashion-early-twentieth-century/) Fallacy #1 Name of the fallacy: Dicto Simpliciter Example from the text:  Exercise is good. Therefore, everybody should exercise  You mustn’t take all these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life. My own example: I find math easy, so everyone should find math easy. Fallacy #2 Name: Hasty Generalization Example from the text:  I can’t speak French. Petey Bellows can’t speak French. I must therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French  We have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched. My own example: I don’t have blue eyes. My friend Sameya doesn’t have blue eyes therefore, no one in GA has blue eyes Fallacy #3 Name: Post Hoc Example from the text: Let’s not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it rains. My own example: I will no longer wear anything red. Every time I wear something red, I get hit by a car. Fallacy #4 Name: Contradictory Premises Example from the text:  If God can do anything, can He make a stone so heavy that He won’t be able to lift it?  If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. My own example: If there is an unstoppable force, would it be able to move an immovable object Fallacy #5 Name: Ad Misericordiam Example from the text: A man applies for a job. When the boss asks him what his qualifications are, he replies that he has a wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple, the children have nothing to eat, no clothes to wear, no shoes on their feet, there are no beds in the house, no coal in the cellar, and winter is coming My own example: A salesman wants to sell a product. The customer asks what's good about this product. The salesman said all profits that they get will be donated to Africa to help children that are starving and homeless Fallacy #6 Name: False Analogy Example from the text:  Students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during examinations. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are building a house. Why, then, shouldn’t students be allowed to look at their textbooks during an examination?  Five dates are plenty. After all, you don’t have to eat a whole cake to know that it’s good. My own example: People should be able to go to the park without wearing pants. After all, dogs are allowed to go to the park without wearing pants, and I have never seen one of the ducks at the park with pants on, and those squirrels, while they would look adorable with a pair of corduroy pants, I have yet to see them with them. Therefore, people should also be able to enjoy the park without having to wear pants.