CA Deductive Arguments Exercise – Description
Watch some of the controversial videos below on climate change for background on the topic. Study all Seven Forms of deductive arguments introduced in your Power Point Lecture.
In this exercise, we are practicing with deductive arguments only.
1) Identify the form of the argument given below correctly. It is useful to insert your A, B, or C for statements or terms as per examples in lecture.
Next:
2) Try to make a clear and short argument of your own using that same form you identified.
a) You must number your premises and; b) indicate your conclusion.
3) You must reply to one other class mate. I will help if needed in the discussion.
Here is the Argument Form to Identify: Name the Form by using PowerPoint: Name_____________________.
1. If we continue to use fossil fuels and pollute the environment, then climate change will increase.
2. If climate change increases, then there will be catastrophic consequences for world populations.
Therefore, if we continue to use fossil fuels and pollute the environment then there will be catastrophic consequences for world populations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbwv1jg4gZULinks to an external site.
Ethics and Climate Change: It’s wrong to wreck the worldLinks to an external site.
Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies)Links to an external site.
13 Misconceptions About Global WarmingLinks to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAa58N4JlosLinks to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Efr19RdmkULinks to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwIBUCBrF8Links to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6uSXW-8p4Links to an external site.
Swedes Chill To Harvard’s “Sun Dimming” Experiment (technocracy.news) (Links to an external site.)
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemtrails-in-the-air-causing-cancer-and-other-illness/Links to an external site.
“Can We Cool the Planet”. Very interesting!
https://www.wgbh.org/programs/2020/10/20/can-we-cool-the-planet
https://www.technocracy.news/scientist-net-zero-will-lead-to-the-end-of-modern-civilization/Links to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i8IYcUtEU4Links to an external site.
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