Logic and Ethics: Principles and Applications, Study notes of Reasoning

Download Logic and Ethics: Principles and Applications and more Study notes Reasoning in PDF only on Docsity! Kolby Kelly Intro to Logic Jan. 19, 2010 1. P: Titanium combines readily with oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen and has adverse effects on titanium's mechanical properties. C: Titanium must be processed in their absence. 2. P: The good is that which furthers a person's real interest. C: When the good is known, man will seek it. 3. P: As the denial or perversion of justice by the sentence of courts is with reason classes among the just causes of war. C: The federal judiciary ought to have cognizance of all causes in which the citizens if other countries concerned. 4. P: When individuals voluntarily abandon property, they forfeit any expectations of privacy in it that they might have had. C: A warrantless search or seizure of abandoned property is not unreasonable under the fourth amendment. 5. P1: Artist and poets translate their ideas to canvas, or to marble, or into poetic images. P2: Scientist translate their ideas to hypotheses and theories. C: Great science theories are easily compared to great art and great literature. 6. P1: Animals in Asia and Australia are very different. P2: Asian placental mammals and Australian marsupial mammals have not been in contact in the last several million years. C: There was never a land bridge between Australia and the mainland Asia. 7. P1: After October 1963, when Hurricane Flora devastated the island and killed more than a thousand people, the cuban government overhauled its civil defense system. P2: It was so successful that when six hurricanes thumped Cuba between 1996 and 2002 only 16 people died. P3: When Hurricane Ivan struck Cuba in 2004 there was not a single casualty, but the same storm killed at least 70 people in other caribbean countries. C: Cuba's record on disaster prevention is impressive.