PHI332 : The
Class : Argument
ID : Premise
Indicators : Exercise 2.2.4
Exercise 2.2.4
Diagram the following with letters and a key or with arrows connecting declarative
statements. If it is not an argument, label it "not an argument." Then
turn the page and check your work.
- Because there are so many cancers, the lethality of which varies dramatically,
telling a patient that cancer might recur and would then be incurable, without
providing at least some general information concerning the virulence of the
particular cancer at issue as reflected in mortality tables, was "meaningless."
(p. 80)
- Since continued medical interventions cannot realistically be thought to
benefit patients in persistent vegetative states in any way, they may be ethically
forgone. (p. 219)
- Because human life is the foundation for all other human goods, it has a
special value and significance. (p. 225)
- Withholding medically assisted nutrition could not be a matter of killing
because it involves an omission rather than a positive action. (p. 226)
- For rational people, not wearing a helmet is not an essential feature in
the enjoyment of riding a motorcycle. (p. 61)
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Check your work.
Once you have completed this exercise you should:
Go on to Topic 3: Conclusion Indicators
or
Go back to Premise Indicators
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