Identify premises and conclusions!. For every premise that you may find, encase them within a box; and for every conclusion encircle them!. If there are indicator words, underline them!. It would be wise to use a pencil!. also, tell whether how many propositions you may find in each passage!.
1!. I am having difficulty in accepting that the UST Tigers would make it in the Final Four this season!. Last year they didn’t make it and to make matters worse, Alwyn Espiritu already graduated last year!. How are they to make it this year without an experienced center!?
2!. Any social practice that promotes treating persons as objects and that disregards their autonomy as agents is immoral!. Clearly then, slavery is an immoral social practice!. But if that’s true, then any slave owner was engaged in an immoral social practice!. Hence, unpleasant as it may seem to us, George Washington was engaged in an immoral social practice during most of his time!.
3!. Since Henry was the only person in the house on the night of the murder and he had a gun with him that he knew how to use, and since he is the heir to the Duke’s vast fortune, we can conclude that only Henry had the opportunity, means and motive for killing the Duke!.
4!. It is common knowledge that any object that begins to fall as soon as its support is removed!. Hence, a stone begins to fall as soon as it leaves the hand of the man who throws it!. And thus, it follows that no stone can be thrown upward!.
5!. Since all persons are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, it can be concluded that no person, including Washington and Jefferson, can justly make another into a slave!.
6!. If Harry was killed in the parlor, then Martha had to be the killer!. But if Harry was killed in the garden, then Linda had to be the killer!. Now we know that either Martha was the killer of Linda was!. Therefore, Harry was killed either in the parlor or in the garden!.
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7!. If Laura gets married, then either Kim is the maid of honor of Donna is the maid of honor, then there will be a quarrel in the wedding!. Therefore, if Laura gets married, there will be a quarrel in the wedding!.
8!. Abortion is the killing of an innocent human being, and the killing of an innocent human is murder!. So, you can figure out what that makes abortion, can’t you!? But if that’s true, then abortion is against the will of God and contrary to civilized behaviour!. It follows that we must prevent abortions from ever taking place!.
9!. Since the German army has invaded Poland, and since it invaded Poland only if Hitler is bent on total conquest of Europe, we can easily deduce the intentions!. But if he intends the total conquest of Europe, then his army must invade France soon!. Since France’s only defense is the Maginot Line, France will fall in a matter of weeks!. Therefore, we must begin to prepare for the defense of England now!.
10!. If we pay off the blackmailers now, then we will continue to pay them more and more in the future!. So, we will not pay off the blackmailers!. And if we don’t pay them off, then we have to get the pictures!. So, what we have to do is obvious!.Www@QuestionHome@Com